Visualizing labor in American sculpture : monuments, manliness, and the work ethic, 1880-1935 / Melissa Dabakis.

Author/creator Dabakis, Melissa
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Descriptionxvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge studies in American visual culture
Cambridge studies in American visual culture. ^A370813
Contents From craftsman to operative: the work ethic ideology and American art -- Martyrs and monuments: The Haymarket affair -- The spectacle of labor: the world's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The erotics of the laboring body: Douglas Tilden's Mechanics Fountain -- A museological tribute to the work ethic: the Constantin Meunier Exhibition -- The stoker, the ragpicker, and the striker: American genre sculpture in the Progressive Era -- Icons of labor: capitalism, communism, and the politics of sculpture, 1917 to 1935 -- Conclusion: organized labor and the politics of representation: The Samuel Gompers Memorial.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-286) and index.
LCCN 98045452
ISBN0521461472 (hb)

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Joyner General Stacks NB1952.L33 D24 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold