Art, labour and American life : 1930-2020 / Ben Hickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hickman, Ben, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--United States--History--21st century.

Work--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Work.

Work--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century.

United States--Social conditions--20th century.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]

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. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: HICKMAN, BEN. ART, LABOUR AND AMERICAN LIFE.

ISBN:

9783031414909

303141490X

Publisher Number:

99995137920

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.