Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America /
Schulman, Vanessa Meikle, 1981-
Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / Vanessa Meikle Schulman. - Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Science/Technology/Culture .
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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781613763827
National characteristics, American, in art.
Technology in art.
Industries in art.
Art and society--History--United States--19th century.
Art and technology--History--United States--19th century.
Art and industry--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
N72 / .W675 2015
Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / Vanessa Meikle Schulman. - Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Science/Technology/Culture .
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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781613763827
National characteristics, American, in art.
Technology in art.
Industries in art.
Art and society--History--United States--19th century.
Art and technology--History--United States--19th century.
Art and industry--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
N72 / .W675 2015