Home/Symbols/Apron and work blouseApron and work blouse SymbolismMarkers of service and classed labor; professionalism without sentimentality.Common ThemesErotic desireMimesis vs. abstraction (truth vs. artifice)Medium reflexivity (art about art)Everyday life as art (readymade, the ordinary)Gender & sexualityClass & inequalityLabor & workArtworks Featuring This SymbolCombing the HairEdgar Degas (c.1896)Edgar Degas’s Combing the Hair crystallizes a private ritual into a scene of <strong>compressed intimacy</strong> and <strong>classed labor</strong>. The incandescent field of red fuses figure and room, turning the hair into a <strong>binding ribbon</strong> between attendant and sitter <sup>[1]</sup>.
