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Kurs: Specjalne zagadnienia z historii sztuki > Rozdział 1
Lekcja 4: Praca, wymiana towarowa i technologia- “What a fascinating modern age we live in”
- The triangle trade and the colonial table, sugar, tea, and slavery
- The triangle trade and the colonial table, sugar, tea, and slavery: learning resources
- Inventing America, Colt's Experimental Pocket Pistol
- Inventing America, Colt's Experimental Pocket Pistol: learning resources
- Carving out a life after slavery
- Carving out a life after slavery: learning resources
- Heroes of modern surgery: Eakins' Dr. Gross and Dr. Agnew
- Heroes of modern surgery, Eakins' Dr. Gross and Dr. Agnew: learning resources
- Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter
- Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter: learning resources
- Romare Bearden, Factory Workers
- Romare Bearden, Factory Workers: learning resources
- A mine disaster and those left behind: Ben Shahn's Miner's Wives
- A mine disaster and those left behind, Ben Shahn’s Miners’ Wives: learning resources
- Mass Consumerism, Warhol, and 1960s America
- Mass Consumerism, Warhol, and 1960s America: learning resources
- Preserving Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway
- Nam June Paik, Elektroniczna autostrada: Kontynentalne Stany Zjednoczone, Alaska, Hawaje
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Cleaning the museum—maintenance art
- Cleaning the museum—maintenance art: learning resources
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A mine disaster and those left behind, Ben Shahn’s Miners’ Wives: learning resources
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- The 1947 explosion in the Centralia mine in Illinois illustrated the dangerous conditions and lack of enforced regulations in the coal mining industry. Although hazards were long known at the site, this accident, which killed 111 men, raised public awareness around mining companies’ ongoing practice of neglect. While such tragedies have sometimes led to legal reform and occupational safety regulations, they continue to be a part of the history of industrial growth in the United States.
- Social realist artists like Ben Shahn were committed to making art that would expose social problems and advocate for real change to better the lives of the working class. In this painting, he draws attention not to the dramatic events of the tragedy, but the personal impact of the death of these men on the wives and families left behind.
Dla zainteresowanych
Listen to and read the lyrics from Woody Guthrie’s Dying Miner about the Centralia coal mine explosion
Do przemyślenia
There continue to be industries and jobs that put people at risk either through occupational hazards or a lack of industrial safety measures. What can artists, the media, or other activist groups do to raise awareness and create change?
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