Men at work
Subtitle: art and labour in Victorian Britain
By: Tim Barringer
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Labor in art; Art and society -- England; Art, Victorian -- England
Other titles: Art and labour in Victorian Britain
Description: "Featuring extensive new research, Men at Work examines a broad spectrum of the visual culture of Victorian Britain and its empire, including prints, photographs, book illustrations, material objects, and exhibition and museum displays. Barringer arrives at a major reinterpretation of the art and culture of nineteenth-century Britain as well as new readings of such key figures as Ford Madox Brown, John Linnell, and John Ruskin."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-372) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an aesthetic of labour; title: Art, religion, and labour; title: The harvest field in the railway age; title: Blacksmith and artist; title: Art and industry; title: Colonial gothic; title: Conclusion: aestheticism and labour