Representations of Work in Literature and Visual Culture

The issue Representations of Work in Literature and Visual Culture is part of the studies on the material and immaterial imagery of the world of professions and its representation from a diachronic perspective and in different disciplinary fields. The articles focus on twentieth-century Italian, German and French culture and deal with aspects related to theories and methods of representation of the working world, enterprise and craftsmanship from different points of view without avoiding the development of methodological and aesthetic approaches that come from different schools of Western thought relating to work. What emerges from the articles as a whole is a treatment of work in its various meanings – including that of the writer and the artist – which has taken place over the last hundred years in the context of Freudian, Marxist and Weberian theories, which are among those discussed by the contributions collected in this issue of «Between».