LEADER 03667nam 22006375 450 001 9910760258903321 005 20250807135859.0 010 $a9783031414909 010 $a303141490X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-41490-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30808616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30808616 035 $a(CKB)28544060000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-41490-9 035 $a(OCoLC)1406410650 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928544060000041 100 $a20231021d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArt, Labour and American Life $e1930?2020 /$fby Ben Hickman 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (298 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Hickman, Ben Art, Labour and American Life Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031414893 327 $aIntroduction: life after the avant-garde -- 1 Proletarian realism, proletarian modernism: life in the Thirties -- 2 The managerial avant-garde: Hannah Arendt, John Cage and Jackson Pollock -- 3 The labour of mid-century leisure: grace, time and pastoral in Frank O?Hara?s work poems -- 4 Extraordinary measures: work, race and violence from Umbra to Gary, Indiana -- 5 Performing women?s work: Linda Montano, Bernadette Mayer and Karen Finley -- 6 Life and death: illness, labour and writing from Audre Lorde to Anne Boyer -- 7 Labour value and the web of life: the new century?s poetics of scale -- 8 Life at zero hours: language, networks and precarity since 2008. . 330 $aThis book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work?s transformations over the last century. Describing the complex relations between cultural forms and the work practices, Art, Labour and American Life explores everything from Fordism to feminization, from white-collar ascendency to zero hours precarity, as these things have manifested in painting, performance art, poetry, fiction, philosophy and music. Labour, all but invisible in cultural histories of the period, despite the fact most Americans have spent most of their lives doing it, here receives an urgent re-emphasis, as we witness work?s radical redefinition across the world. Ben Hickman is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry and Director of the Centre for Modern Poetry at the University of Kent, UK, having studied at University College, Londonand the University of Kent. Recent publications include John Ashbery and English Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), and Poetry and Real Politics: Crisis and the US Avant-Garde (2016), also with EUP. 606 $aEthnology$zAmerica 606 $aCulture 606 $aMotion pictures 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aArts 606 $aAmerican Culture 606 $aAudio-Visual Culture 606 $aCultural Studies 606 $aArts 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aMotion pictures. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aArts. 615 14$aAmerican Culture. 615 24$aAudio-Visual Culture. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aArts. 676 $a306.0973 700 $aHickman$b Ben$01438687 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910760258903321 996 $aArt, Labour and American Life$93600331 997 $aUNINA