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Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists

Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists

Looking at Art and Class

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  • Release Date: 15/07/2026
  • Barcode: 9780252089398
  • Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists

Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists

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Looking at Art and Class
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.

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