Throughout the nineteeenth century, the association of heroic forms of masculinity with manual work was adumbrated less through political rhetoric than through biblical imagery and also in aesthetics of labour developed by the painters and photographers of the first industrial revolution. We will look briefly at each in turn.
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This gallery of 120 images in Body Politics contains the following sections: Elemental Labour-Mummers, miners and sweeps-Time and Motion Studies-Automata- Youth culture and extreme sport-physical culture and the dream of the collective body- masculinity and manual labour in a post industrial world.It is designed to support ‘On the wrong Side of the Track?’ and ‘Borderscapes’.
