Art and work: a social history of labour in the Canadian graphic arts industry to the 1940s.

From: Manitoba History | Date: March 22, 1998 | Copyright information

Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995, Pp.xx, 187, illus.

Some years back I attended a conference where psychologists considered art issues. As I read Angela Davis' book I was reminded of that experience. Their theorizing would have been far more successful if they too had only had a better grasp of art history. Not only does Davis promote the image of the marginalized and even oppressed graphic artist, a highly questionable characterization, but h...

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