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

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

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection M Schick  338.6425 Ob3 2007    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiv, 408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Some pages folded.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Joan Livingstone and John Ploof -- Piecework : home, factory, studio, exhibit / Maureen P. Sherlock -- Labor, history, and sweatshops in the new global economy / Alan Howard -- That word which means smuggling across borders, incorporated : the multipled suit / J. Morgan Puett, Iain Kerr -- Work now / Karen Reimer -- Machine dreams / Helen Haejin Cho -- Can you see us now? = ¿Ya nos pueden ver? / subRosa -- Lace curtains for Troy / Margo Mensing -- Damask / Anne Wilson -- Amazwi Abesifazane : voices of women / Carol Becker -- Amazwi Abesifazane : reclaiming the emotional and public self / Andries Botha -- Visible links / Lara Lepionka -- I mean this / Darrel Morris -- Stitching women's lives : Sujuni and Khatwa from Bihar, India / Viji Srinivasan [and others] -- Inventory of labor / Barbara Layne, Sue Rowley -- Signifiers / Park Chambers -- Home work / Lou Cabeen -- What are you making? / Lisa Clark -- From Prototypes for new understanding / Brian Jungen -- Sew your own stump flag / Susie Brandt -- From Trials and turbulence / Pepón Osorio -- Torn and mended : textile actions at Ground Zero and beyond / Nancy Gildart -- Ada Lovelace and the loom of life / Sadie Plant -- Hands on spots / Lia Cook -- Biting and chewing in contemporary art / Alison Ferris -- From Soundsuits / Nick Cave -- Laboured cloth : translations of hybridity in contemporary art / Janis Jefferies -- Big boy, leisure lady, gay Victorians / Yinka Shonibare -- From Cities on the move / Kimsooja -- Material with a memory / Mary Jane Jacob -- An aesthetic of Blackness : strange and oppositional / Bell Hooks -- Aesthetic inheritances: history worked by hand / Bell Hooks -- From Indigo blue / Ann Hamilton -- Deco-jamming is eco-glam! / Neil MacInnis in collaboration with Judith Leemann -- Hand labour and digital capitalism at the Chicago Board of Trade / Ingrid Bachmann -- Iron into lace / Merrill Mason -- Artist as insect / Kevin Murray.
Subject Handicraft industries.
Material culture.
Handicraft industries. (OCoLC)fst00951013
Material culture. (OCoLC)fst01011739
Added Author Livingstone, Joan, 1948-
Ploof, John.
ISBN 0262122901 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262122900 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

 
    
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