Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Praznik Katja)(Pevná vazba)

Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Praznik Katja)(Pevná vazba)

Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism (Pfannebecker Mareile)(Pevná vazba)

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic

Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy (Reilly Maura)(Pevná vazba)

This is a major new study and celebration of the career and legacy of the modernist sculptor, painter, collagist and educator Luise Clayborn Kaish (1925 - 2013). Kaish was a key figure in the New York art scene of the late 20th century, whose multidisciplinary and process-oriented practice

The Dignity of Labour: Image, Work and Identity in the Roman World (Ferris Iain)(Pevná vazba)

Numerous incidental illustrations of agricultural workers occur on Roman artworks, while the names and trades of many individual working people, artisans, and professionals are known from inscriptions and funerary monuments in Rome and from across the empire. The most extraordinary individual

Labour and the left in the 1980s (Davis Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about

Antarctica, Art and Archive (Gould Polly)(Pevná vazba)

Recent centenaries have commemorated the heroic era of Antarctic exploration and the work of pioneers such as Edward Wilson. He was a polar polymath who was an explorer, doctor, scientist and artist. Yet, how did Wilson manage the impossible practice of en plein air (open air) watercolour painting

The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black (Hudspeth E. B.)(Pevná vazba)

An extraordinary biography. A gallery of astonishing work. The legacy of a madman. Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages--and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at

London Labour and the London Poor (Mayhew Henry)(Paperback)

An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the

John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion (Redford Bruce)(Pevná vazba)

A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamour and anxiety of his age. In this innovative study, Bruce Redford reveals the

The Pre-Raphaelites (Petiot Aurlie)(Pevná vazba)

Meet the renegades of Victorian art in this gorgeously illustrated exploration of their work and influence In the revolutionary year of 1848, a group of young British artists set out to return a lost vibrancy to European art. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they mounted an

Unravelled - Contemporary Knit Art (Vannier Charlotte)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning survey of yarn work in contemporary art, illustrating the myriad ways knitting and crochet have been embraced as a form of creative

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered

Stories of Art & Artists (Secker Tesdell Diana)(Pevná vazba)

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Artist of the Beautiful' and Albert Camus's 'The Artist at Work' to Bernard Malamud's 'Rembrandt's Hat' and Aimee Bender's 'The Color Master,' the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who

American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory (Dorrien Gary)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists 'The movement whose tangled history Gary Dorrien tells in American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very 'American' values it is accused of

The Art of Modern Tapestry: Dovecot Studios Since 1912 (Cumming)(Pevná vazba)

Setting out to celebrate, document and discuss the work and role of an international tapestry workshop, Dovecot Studios, since its foundation in Edinburgh in 1912, this groundbreaking publication uniquely explores the artistic value, nature and identity of tapestry through both images, essays and

Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour (Miliband Ralph)(Paperback)

Reflecting on the Labor government of Harold Wilson between 1964 and 1970, this concise analysischronicles the Labor Party from its early days up to the early 1960s, including a 1972 postscript. Demonstrating how empirical and flexible the Labor Party has been about certain issues, this reference

The Invention of Oscar Wilde (Frankel Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

'One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art,' Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde's inventive,

Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life (Baas Jacquelynn)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking reading of Duchamp's work as informed by Asian 'esoterism, ' energetic spiritual practices identifying creative energy with the erotic impulse.Considered by many to be the most important artist of the twentieth century, the object of intensive critical scrutiny and extensive

Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988 (Clark Lygia)(Pevná vazba)

Published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the work of Brazilian painter, sculptor and performance artist Lygia Clark, this publication presents a linear and progressive survey of the artist's groundbreaking practice. Having trained with modern masters from the late 1940s to the

Korean Art from the 19th Century to the Present (Horlyck Charlotte)(Pevná vazba)

Walk the galleries of any major contemporary art museum and you are sure to see a work by a Korean artist. Interest in modern and contemporary art from South--as well as North--Korea has grown in recent decades, and museums and individual collectors have been eager to tap into this rising market

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law (Adams Zoe)(Paperback)

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts of several jurisdictions, provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labour law which explains the role of different legal and extra-legal sources in its evolution, including collective bargaining,

Justice League: The Art of the Film (Bernstein Abbie)(Pevná vazba)

Inspired by Superman's selfless act, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans - Aquaman, Cyborg, and The Flash - to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions. Packed with stunning concept art, sketches, costume detail, stills, and

The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Foster John Bellamy)(Pevná vazba)

Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx's revolutionary ecological materialism

Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction (Ferguson Susan)(Paperback)

'A masterful analysis of three centuries of feminist deliberations on work, carefully tracing how the fault lines of social-reproduction theory emerged.'--Historical Materialism Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair