03806nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-41490-9 DE-He213 20251030110824.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231021s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031414909 978-3-031-41490-9 10.1007/978-3-031-41490-9 doi HM621-656 JFC bicssc 1K bicssc SOC069000 bisacsh JBCC 1K thema Hickman, Ben. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 66657 Art, Labour and American Life [electronic resource] : 1930–2020 / by Ben Hickman. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 299 p. 18 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Introduction: 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. . This 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. Ethnology America. 66658 Culture. 59159 Motion pictures. 58496 Culture Study and teaching. 66082 Arts. 65405 American Culture. 66659 Audio-Visual Culture. 66660 Cultural Studies. 58745 Arts. 65405 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031414893 Printed edition: 9783031414916 Printed edition: 9783031414923 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41490-9 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 56429 56429