Spot the Miner: Do Clothes Really Make the (Wo)man?
Coal mining is an industry that is associated with hard physical labor and harsh mental conditions. Modern artistic projects involving portraits of miners evolve as artists' responses to political and economic changes in the mining industry, which is currently in decline, and place a major focu...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/6581 2023-05-15T18:29:49+02:00 Spot the Miner: Do Clothes Really Make the (Wo)man? Sokolova, Svetlana 2022-06-27 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6581 https://doi.org/10.7557/6.6581 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6581/6619 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/article/view/6581 doi:10.7557/6.6581 Copyright (c) 2022 Svetlana Sokolova https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Poljarnyj vestnik; Vol. 25 No. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 86-107 Poljarnyj Vestnik; Vol 25 Nr. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 86-107 1890-9671 1500-7502 Russian Svalbard coal mining info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Refereed article 2022 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/6.6581 2022-06-29T22:59:11Z Coal mining is an industry that is associated with hard physical labor and harsh mental conditions. Modern artistic projects involving portraits of miners evolve as artists' responses to political and economic changes in the mining industry, which is currently in decline, and place a major focus on miner communities, rather than individual miners. This article presents an overview of relevant selected artistic projects, and supplements them with a small mini-gallery sketched by the author. The mini-gallery viewers have been invited to test their perception of miners based on a series of charcoal portraits representing men and women dressed in mining workwear and everyday clothes. Who in this mini-gallery is a miner, what serves as the basis for the respondents' guesswork, and, overall, how different is today’s perception of miners from those of the past centuries? Three main factors are outlined as potentially relevant for identifying miners: mining workwear, gender, and facial expression. The readers can compare their intuitive reactions with the results from an online experiment, which was presented in Norwegian, Russian, and English and collected 136 responses. Although the presence of mining workwear and male gender still carry a strong association with miners, the results reveal certain differences across Norway, Russia, and the United States. The article is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of art history, social studies and psychology with an artistic project. Article in Journal/Newspaper Svalbard University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Norway Svalbard Poljarnyj vestnik 25 1 86 107 |
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Coal mining is an industry that is associated with hard physical labor and harsh mental conditions. Modern artistic projects involving portraits of miners evolve as artists' responses to political and economic changes in the mining industry, which is currently in decline, and place a major focus on miner communities, rather than individual miners. This article presents an overview of relevant selected artistic projects, and supplements them with a small mini-gallery sketched by the author. The mini-gallery viewers have been invited to test their perception of miners based on a series of charcoal portraits representing men and women dressed in mining workwear and everyday clothes. Who in this mini-gallery is a miner, what serves as the basis for the respondents' guesswork, and, overall, how different is today’s perception of miners from those of the past centuries? Three main factors are outlined as potentially relevant for identifying miners: mining workwear, gender, and facial expression. The readers can compare their intuitive reactions with the results from an online experiment, which was presented in Norwegian, Russian, and English and collected 136 responses. Although the presence of mining workwear and male gender still carry a strong association with miners, the results reveal certain differences across Norway, Russia, and the United States. The article is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of art history, social studies and psychology with an artistic project. |
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Spot the Miner: Do Clothes Really Make the (Wo)man? |
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Poljarnyj vestnik; Vol. 25 No. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 86-107 Poljarnyj Vestnik; Vol 25 Nr. 1 (2022): Mining Svalbard: Art and Politics; 86-107 1890-9671 1500-7502 |
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