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Author:

Dabakis, Melissa.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xvi, 296 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Labor in art.
Sculpture, American.
Sculpture, Modern--19th century--United States.
Sculpture, Modern--20th century--United States.
Labor in art.
Sculpture, American.
Sculpture, Modern--19th century--United Sttes.
Sculpture, Modern--20th century--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-286) and index.

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.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American visual culture

ISBN:

9780521461474 (hb)
0521461472 (hb)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40073979

LCCN:

98045452

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)