Lectures in Art History: Abigail Susik, Willamette University
115 Howell Hall UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis presentation juxtaposes Thirion’s theory of waged work as unhealthy with artworks by surrealist artists that associate modern work tools such as the sewing machine with sexual pleasure. For the interwar French surrealist group, the wage labor imperative could be subverted through the collective embrace of a different kind of compulsive drive, that of Eros.