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

By:

Davis, Angela E, 1926-1994 [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773565241

Other title:

Social history of labour in the Canadian graphic arts industry to the 1940s

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

NC998 .A783 1995

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Contents:

2. The English Inheritance: Artists, Engravers, and the Separation of the Arts -- 3. Transferring the Traditions: Visitors and Immigrants -- 4. Changing Patterns of Work: Engravers and Photo-engravers, 1870-1914 -- 5. Changing Perceptions of Art: Artists and Commercial Artists, 1870-1914 -- 6. Business and Art in Western Canada: The Spread of Commercial Ideas -- 7. Factors for Change: Labour and Art, 1914-1940 -- 8. Conclusion: Social History and Popular Culture.

Subject: This book is a history of the development of commercial illustration and the graphic arts industry in Canada from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. It suggests that the foundations of Canadian art and a Canadian popular culture rest not only within the European traditions of fine art but also with the work of those artists who practised in the commercial environment of the early graphic arts houses.Summary: It is also a history of a type of "work" that was new during this period. The mechanized reproduction of art works in the nineteenth century meant that artists found themselves within an industrial atmosphere similar to that of other workers. This history traces the beginning of that process in England, follows its transference to Canada, and demonstrates how illustrators, engravers, photo-engravers, and lithographers became part of an increasingly commercially oriented industry. It was an industry of major importance in the fields of printing and new forms of advertising, but it was also an industry that led to a change in status for the members of its work force who considered themselves to be artists.Summary: The study is not concerned with aesthetic values of works of art or with the impact that commercially produced art work has had on consumer culture. Rather, it seeks to understand artists as workers, and work itself, within the changing commercial and industrial milieu of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Canada.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Introduction: Social History and the Graphic Arts Industry -- 2. The English Inheritance: Artists, Engravers, and the Separation of the Arts -- 3. Transferring the Traditions: Visitors and Immigrants -- 4. Changing Patterns of Work: Engravers and Photo-engravers, 1870-1914 -- 5. Changing Perceptions of Art: Artists and Commercial Artists, 1870-1914 -- 6. Business and Art in Western Canada: The Spread of Commercial Ideas -- 7. Factors for Change: Labour and Art, 1914-1940 -- 8. Conclusion: Social History and Popular Culture.

This book is a history of the development of commercial illustration and the graphic arts industry in Canada from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. It suggests that the foundations of Canadian art and a Canadian popular culture rest not only within the European traditions of fine art but also with the work of those artists who practised in the commercial environment of the early graphic arts houses.

It is also a history of a type of "work" that was new during this period. The mechanized reproduction of art works in the nineteenth century meant that artists found themselves within an industrial atmosphere similar to that of other workers. This history traces the beginning of that process in England, follows its transference to Canada, and demonstrates how illustrators, engravers, photo-engravers, and lithographers became part of an increasingly commercially oriented industry. It was an industry of major importance in the fields of printing and new forms of advertising, but it was also an industry that led to a change in status for the members of its work force who considered themselves to be artists.

The study is not concerned with aesthetic values of works of art or with the impact that commercially produced art work has had on consumer culture. Rather, it seeks to understand artists as workers, and work itself, within the changing commercial and industrial milieu of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Canada.

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