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Nineteenth-Century Contexts
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Volume 17, 1993 - Issue 2
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Blacksmiths, weavers and artists: Images of labor in the nineteenth century

Pages 174-203 | Published online: 01 Jul 2008

Notes

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  • Rose , Margaret A. 1984 . Marx's Lost Aesthetic, Karl Marx & the Visual Arts 104 – 6 . Cambridge They are reprinted in
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  • Liebermann , Max . 1882 . Weaver Workshop , There are also paintings by in the Frankfurt Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, which, exceptionally, presents a rather rosy image of the craft
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  • Bonvin . 1861 . Fileuse bretonne , An etching by
  • Weisberg , Gabriel P. 1973 . Social Concern and the Worker: French Prints from 1830–1910 , University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts . now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, is reproduced in figure 6
  • Sérusier . 1888 . The Breton Weaver An uncharacteristically realistic painting by
  • Weisberg . 1980 . The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830–1900 205 Cleveland Musée du Haubergier,Senlis is reproduced in exhibition catalogue
  • Zemel , Schwab‐Felisch and Linda , Nochlin . 1981 . “Van Gogh, Renouard, and the Weavers Crisis in Lyon: The Status of a Social Issue in the Art of the Later Nineteenth Century,” . In The Ape of Nature, Studies in Honor of H. W. Janson Edited by: Barasch , Moshe and Sandier , Lucy Freeman . 669 – 688 . New York
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  • Weisberg . The Realist Tradition , 27 The work was inspired by the remembrance of the artist's blacksmith father
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  • Egerton , Judy . 1990 . Wright of Derby 98 – 104 . Westerham, Kent
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