Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists

Looking at Art and Class

Janet Zandy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2026
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252089398 (ISBN)

Infos

Writing from a working-class perspective, Janet Zandy links labor and art to challenge the unnamed class biases in systems of art curation, categorization and expertise. Zandy orchestrates the voices of nine artists – Käthe Kollwitz and Elizabeth Catlett, Ruth Asawa and Marilyn Anderson, Milton Rogovin and Jens S. Jensen, Mark Rogovin and muralism, Ralph Fasanella, and Raymond Mason – whose work aligns with the histories and living conditions of working-class people. These paired portraits open larger conversations about class and artistic formation, intent, and accessibility. Zandy presents a model for writing about art in an inclusive, theoretically informed, and creatively constructed way. Art, as Zandy shows, is not a rare fruit to be plucked by the chosen few. Art is a human necessity and crucial for the sustenance of democracy.

Ambitious and original, Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists rewrites art history from a working-class perspective.

Autor

Janet Zandy is a visual artist and professor emerita of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her books include Unfinished Stories: The Narrative Photography of Hansel Mieth and Marion Palfi and Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2026
• Zusatzinfo: 42 color images in-text; 38 b&w images in-text
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 254 mm
• Gewicht: 454 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-13: 9780252089398 / 9780252089398
• Zustand: Neuware