Le regard de l'artiste sur l'homme au travail

Western art has gradually become interested in the representation of man at work. Initially centered on the work of the earth, the evolution of society and the appearance of new pictorial techniques broadened the iconographic field of man to work. But it was not until the nineteenth century that art, whether pictorial or literary, made man at work an iconographic subject in its own right. In the 20th century, new means of artistic expression, such as photography and cinema, allowed the study and imaging of human activities to continue.