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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151697503321

Autore

Schulman Vanessa Meikle <1981->

Titolo

Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / / Vanessa Meikle Schulman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst ; ; Boston : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61376-382-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Science/technology/culture

Disciplina

709.7309/034

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.