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The object of labor : art, cloth, and cultural production
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The object of labor : art, cloth, and cultural production

Author: Joan Livingstone; John Ploof
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Essays and artists' projects explore the ubiquity of cloth in everyday life and the effect of globalization on art and labor; with more than 100 color images.

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Object of labor.
Chicago, Ill. : School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)608265312
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joan Livingstone; John Ploof
ISBN: 0262122901 9780262122900
OCLC Number: 71288698
Notes: Some pages folded.
Description: xiv, 408 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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 ... [et al.] --
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.
Responsibility: edited by Joan Livingstone & John Ploof ; designed by Ann Tyler.
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