Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists
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- ISBN 9780252089398
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2026
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 open larger conversations about class and artistic formation, intent, and accessibility. Zandy presents a model for writing about art in an inclusive, theoretically informed, and creatively constructed way. Art, as Zandy shows, is not a rare fruit to be plucked by the chosen few. Art is a human necessity and crucial for the sustenance of democracy.
Ambitious and original, Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists rewrites art history from a working-class perspective.
Ambitious and original, Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists rewrites art history from a working-class perspective.
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.
