"The Object of Labor" explores the personal, political, social, and
economic meaning of work in the context of art and textile
production. The ubiquity of cloth in everyday life, the
historically resonant relationship of textile and cloth to labor,
and the tumultuous drive of globalization make the issues raised by
this publication of special interest today. The seventeen essays
cover topics ranging from art-making practices to labor history and
the effects of globalization as seen through art and labor. The
artists' projects--twelve striking and beautiful eight-page, full
color spreads--conduct parallel investigations into art, cloth, and
work. The contributors explore, from historical and personal
perspectives, such subjects as the charged history of offshore
garment workers; the different systems of production and
consumption in factories, homes, studios, and exhibitions; the
revelation of class, gender, and sexuality through cloth, costume,
and textile images; textile production as commemorative acts in
South Africa, the United States, and India; transnationalism,
cultural hybridity, and race in the work of individual artists;
lost histories of garment production and embroidery; the physical
act of art-making as labor; and the value of handmade and
"technologically improved" objects. Essays by: Ingrid Bachmann,
Carol Becker, Andries Botha, Lou Cabeen, Helen Cho, Alison Ferris,
Nancy Gildart, bell hooks, Alan Howard, Mary Jane Jacob, Janis
Jeffries, Neil MacInnis, Margo Mensing, Kevin Murray, Sadie Plant,
Maureen Sherlock, and collectively by Viji Srinivasan, Skye
Morrison, Laila Tyabji, and Dorothy Caldwell. Artist projects and
portfolios by: Susie Brandt, Nick Cave, Park Chambers, Lisa Clark,
Lia Cook, Ann Hamilton, Kimsooja, Barbara Layne and Sue Rowley,
Lara Lepionka, Merrill Mason, Darrel Morris, Pepon Osorio, J.
Morgan Puett and Iain Kerr, Karen Reimer, Yinka Shonibare, SubRosa,
Christine Tarkowski, and Anne Wilson.
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