Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists
Looking at Art and Class
$67.56
- Paperback
254 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2026
Summary
Writing from a working-class perspective, Janet Zandy links labor and art to challenge the unnamed class biases in systems of art curation, categorization and expertise. Zandy orchestrates the voices of nine artists – Käthe Kollwitz and Elizabeth Catlett, Ruth Asawa and Marilyn Anderson, Milton Rogovin and Jens S. Jensen, Mark Rogovin and muralism, Ralph Fasanella, and Raymond Mason – whose work aligns with the histories and living conditions of working-class people. These paired portraits op…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252089398 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252089391 |
| Author: | Janet Zandy |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 254 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 254mm |
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Janet Zandy
Janet Zandy is a visual artist and professor emerita of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her books include Unfinished Stories: The Narrative Photography of Hansel Mieth and Marion Palfi and Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work.
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