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The object of labor : art, cloth, and cultural production / edited by Joan Livingstone & John Ploof ; designed by Ann Tyler.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago, Ill. ; School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2007.Description: xiv, 408 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0262122901 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780262122900 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.6425 22 OBJ
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Contents:

vi Joan Livingstone, John Ploof
Introduction

1 Maureen P. Sherlock
piece work: Home, factory, studio, exhibit

31 Alan Howard
Labor, History and sweatshops in the new global economy

51 J. Morgan Puett, Iain Kerr
That word which means smuggling across boarders, incorporated: the multipled suit

59 Karen Reimer
work now

67 Helen Haejin Cho
machine dreams

81 subRose
Can you see us now? Ya Nos Pueden Ver?

89 Margo Mensing
Lace curtains for troy

105 Anne Wilson
Damask

113 Carol Becker
Amazwi Abesifazane: Voices of women

131 Andries Botha
Amazwi Abesifazane: Reclaiming the emotional and public self

143 Lara Lepionka
Visible links

151 Darrel Morris
I mean this

159 Viji srinivasani, Dr. Skye Morrison, Laila Tyabji, and Dorothy Caldwell
Stitching wome n's lives: Sujun and khatwa from Bihar, India

181 Barbara Layne, Sue Rowley
Inventory of labor

189 Park Chambers
Signifiers

197 Lou Cabeen
Home work

219 Lisa Clerk
What are you making

227 Brain Jungen
from prototypes for the new understanding

229 Susie Brandt
Sew your own stamp flag

235 Pepon Osolio
from trials and tabulence

239 Nancy Gildert
Torn and mended: Textile actions at ground zero and beyond

255 Sadie Plant
Ada lovelence and the room of life

265 Lia Cook
hands on sports

273 Alison Ferris
biting and chewing in contemporary art

281 Nick Cave
from SOUNDSUITS

283 Janis jaferris
lqaboured cloth: trnslations of hybridity in contemporary ary

295 Yinka Shonibare
Big boy, leisure lady, gay victorians

297 Kimsooja
for cities on the move

299 Mary Jane Jacob
material with a memory

315 bell hooks
An Aesthetic of blackness: strange and oppositional

333 Ann Hamilton
from indigo blue

337 Neil MacInnis, in collaboration with Judith Leemann
Deco-jamming is Eco-glam!

357 Ingrid Bachmann
Hand labour and digital capitalism at the Chicago board of trade

369 Merril Mason
Iron into lace

377 Kevin Murray
Artist as insect

Christine Tarkowski
Endpapers

Index : p. 400 - 408

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