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Schulman Vanessa Meikle <1981-> |
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Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / / Vanessa Meikle Schulman |
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Amherst ; ; Boston : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Science/technology/culture |
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Art and industry - United States - History - 19th century |
Art and technology - United States - History - 19th century |
Art and society - United States - History - 19th century |
Industries in art |
Technology in art |
National characteristics, American, in art |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Irvine, 2010) under title: Managing vision, envisioning management : representations of labor and technological systems in Gilded Age America. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : Behold the Lightning Chained and Bound -- Between Materiality and Magic : Representing the Railroad and the Telegraph -- "Where Vulcan Is the Presiding Genius" : John Ferguson Weir, Metallurgy, and the Alchemical Sublime -- Swords into Ploughshares : Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Labor -- Sugar, Shipping, and Cityscapes : Mapping Systems in Thomas Moran's Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey -- Managing Visions of Industry : The Managerial Eye -- Laziness and Civilization : Picturing Sites of Social Control -- Conclusion : Twentieth-Century Echoes. |
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