My impression of artists who were interested in workers, especially in France, is that they tended to focus on rural peasants in the fields. Backbreaking work, to be sure, but at least the workers could rest occasionally and bask in the glorious sunshine.
It will be interesting to read if Tim Barringer found British artists to be more realistic, more gritty, more political.
This would have been about the time when the new sewage systems and underground would have generated a lot of interest. Of course the 'bosses' just looked on or oogled the working girls. Not much changes really.
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My impression of artists who were interested in workers, especially in France, is that they tended to focus on rural peasants in the fields. Backbreaking work, to be sure, but at least the workers could rest occasionally and bask in the glorious sunshine.
It will be interesting to read if Tim Barringer found British artists to be more realistic, more gritty, more political.
This would have been about the time when the new sewage systems and underground would have generated a lot of interest. Of course the 'bosses' just looked on or oogled the working girls. Not much changes really.
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