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

• Autore: Schulman Vanessa Meikle <1981->
• Pubblicazione: Amherst ; ; Boston : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 709.7309/034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Work sights
• ISBN: 1-61376-382-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151697503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science/technology/culture.