{"product_id":"images-of-classisbn-9781839765292","title":"Images of Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first overview of the unique encounter between artists and the prominent Marxist current Workerism, also known as Operaismo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these movements inspired many visual artists such as the members of Archizoom, Gordon Matta-Clark and Gianfranco Baruchello. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis book focuses on the aesthetic and cultural discourse developed by three generations of militants (including Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Bifo and Silvia Federici), and how it was appropriated by artists, architects, graphic designers and architectural historians such as Manfredo Tafuri. \u003ci\u003eImages of Class\u003c\/i\u003esignposts key moments of this dialogue, ranging from the drawings published on \u003ci\u003eclasse operaia\u003c\/i\u003e to Potere Operaio’s exhibition in Paris, the Metropolitan Indians’ zines, a feminist art collective who adhered to the Wages for Housework Campaign, and the N group’s experiments with Gestalt theory. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing more than 140 images of artworks, many published here for the first time, this volume provides an original perspective on post-war Italian culture and new insights into some of the most influential Marxist movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries worldwide.\"A tremendous achievement: through critically exploring what it terms \"visual practices and communicative strategies\", \u003ci\u003eImages of Class\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers crucial, hitherto ignored dimensions of the workerist adventure.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Steve Wright, author of \u003ci\u003eStorming Heaven Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The 1970s in Italy were a decade of social conflicts and intense cultural and aesthetic innovation, but only now, thanks to the Galimberti's book we can have a glimpse of the visual dimension of the movement of Autonomia and of the cultural field that is generally known as \"operaismo\".\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Franco \"Bifo\" Berardi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Masterful in sweep and molecular in detail, Jacopo Galimberti's volume draws upon thorough archival work and a nuanced understanding of Italy’s post-war extraparliamentary left. As the book's incisive case studies reveal, the period’s proliferating images of class were matched by an assault upon established classes of imagery. The defiance of capitalist wage relations found an equivalent not merely in the iconography of social contestation, but new formats and forums, new means of circulation and dissemination, from architectural interventions to graphic novels to ephemera which refused institutionalization. Galimberti shows us a time and place when the collective \"class vernacular\" of operaismo and autonomia had not yet ceded to something else. We can still rail against that something else, in Italy and elsewhere: urban gentrification, critical grandstanding, a bloated art market, the aesthetic apotheosis of the individual. But this book helps us remember what came first and what might, one day, come again.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ara H Merjian, New York University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rich in innovative insights, \u003ci\u003eImages of Class \u003c\/i\u003eproposes a fresh approach to a tumultuous historical period that generated original political theories and social movements. This inspiring and beautiful volume is a must-read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Leopoldina Fortunati, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Arcane of Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very significant contribution in the English language to the historicization of operaismo...\u003ci\u003eImages of Class\u003c\/i\u003e performs novel research on the development of these Marxian and dissident tendencies alongside visual, literary, and architectural production and theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Andreas Petrossiants, \u003ci\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacopo Galimberti\u003c\/b\u003e is an art historian and Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at IUAV (Venice).","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300840198373,"sku":"NP9781839765292","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839765292_63ef72c5-acb0-4bd1-9d99-4ffc795691fa.jpg?v=1730746057","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/images-of-classisbn-9781839765292","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}