Title Work sights : the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / Vanessa Meikle Schulman

Published Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Science/Technology/Culture Contents 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 Notes 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject National characteristics, American, in art. Technology in art. Industries in art. Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century Art and technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century Art and industry -- United States -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Social History. Art and industry Art and society Art and technology Industries in art National characteristics, American, in art Technology in art United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781613763827 1613763824

Other Titles Managing vision, envisioning management

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