The object of labor : art, cloth, and cultural production / edited by Joan Livingstone & John Ploof ; designed by Ann Tyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Livingstone, Joan, 1948-

Ploof, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handicraft industries.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

xiv, 408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]

Contents:

Maureen P. Sherlock Piecework: Home, Factory, Studio, Exhibit 1

/ Alan Howard Labor, History, and Sweatshops in the New Global Economy 31

/ J. Morgan Puett, Iain Kerr That Word Which Means Smuggling Across Borders, Incorporated: The Multipled Suit 51

/ Karen Reimer Work Now 59

/ Helen Haejin Cho Machine Dreams 67

/ subRosa Can You See Us Now? 81

/ Margo Mensing Lace Curtains for Troy 89

/ Anne Wilson Damask 105

/ Carol Becker Amazwi Abesifazane: Voices of Women 113

/ Andries Botha Amazwi Abesifazane: Reclaiming the Emotional and Public Self 131

/ Lara Lepionka Visible Links 143

/ Darrel Morris I mean this 151

/ Viji Srinivasan, Dr. Skye Morrison, Laila Tyabji, Dorothy Caldwell Stitching Women's Lives: Sujuni and Khatwa from Bihar, India 159

/ Barbara Layne, Sue Rowley Inventory of Labor 181

/ Park Chambers Signifiers 189

/ Lou Cabeen Home Work 197

/ Lisa Clark What are you making? 219

/ Brian Jungen from Prototypes for New Understanding 227

/ Susie Brandt' Sew Your Own Stump Flag 229

/ Pepon Osorio from Trials and Turbulence 235

/ Nancy Gildart Torn and Mended: Textile Actions at Ground Zero and Beyond 239

/ Sadie Plant Ada Lovelace and the Loom of Life 255

/ Lia Cook Hands on Spots 265

/ Alison Ferris Biting and Chewing in Contemporary Art 273

/ Nick Cave from Soundsuits 281

/ Janis Jefferies Laboured Cloth: Translations of Hybridity in Contemporary Art 283

/ Yinka Shonibare, MBE Big Boy, Leisure Lady, Gay Victorians 295

/ Kimsooja from Cities on the Move 297

/ Mary Jane Jacob Material with a Memory 299

/ Bell Hooks An Aesthetic of Blackness: strange and oppositional Aesthetic Inheritances: history worked by hand 315

/ Ann Hamilton from indigo blue 333

/ Neil MacInnis, Judith Leemann Deco-jamming is Eco-glam! 337

/ Ingrid Bachmann Hand Labour and Digital Capitalism at the Chicago Board of Trade 357

/ Merrill Mason Iron Into Lace 369

/ Kevin Murray Artist as Insect 377

/ Christine Tarkowski Endpapers.

Notes:

Some pages folded.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262122901

9780262122900

OCLC:

71288698