| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction: life after the avant-garde -- 1 Proletarian realism, proletarian modernism: life in the Thirties -- 2 The managerial avant-garde: Hannah Arendt, John Cage and Jackson Pollock -- 3 The labour of mid-century leisure: grace, time and pastoral in Frank OHaras work poems -- 4 Extraordinary measures: work, race and violence from Umbra to Gary, Indiana -- 5 Performing womens work: Linda Montano, Bernadette Mayer and Karen Finley -- 6 Life and death: illness, labour and writing from Audre Lorde to Anne Boyer -- 7 Labour value and the web of life: the new centurys poetics of scale -- 8 Life at zero hours: language, networks and precarity since 2008. |
| Summary |
This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by works transformations over the last century. Describing the complex relations between cultural forms and the work practices, Art, Labour and American Life explores everything from Fordism to feminization, from white-collar ascendency to zero hours precarity, as these things have manifested in painting, performance art, poetry, fiction, philosophy and music. Labour, all but invisible in cultural histories of the period, despite the fact most Americans have spent most of their lives doing it, here receives an urgent re-emphasis, as we witness works radical redefinition across the world. Ben Hickman is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry and Director of the Centre for Modern Poetry at the University of Kent, UK, having studied at University College, London and the University of Kent. Recent publications include John Ashbery and English Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), and Poetry and Real Politics: Crisis and the US Avant-Garde (2016), also with EUP |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2023) |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Work -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Work -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Popular culture.
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Social conditions.
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Work -- Social aspects.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031414909 |
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303141490X |
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