Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture - Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935

Klappentext A study of American sculpture with themes of labour and manliness. Zusammenfassung This text focuses on representations of work in American sculpture! from the decade in which the American Federation of Labor was formed! to the inauguration of the federal works project during the Great Depression. This work restores a group of important monuments to their proper place with art history and American studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The work ethic ideology and American art; 2. The Haymarket affair; 3. The world's Columbian exhibition of 1893; 4. Douglas Tilden's mechanics fountain; 5. The Constantin Meunier exhibition; 6. American genre sculpture in the progressive era; 7. Capitalism, communism, and the politics of sculpture, 1917 to 1935; 8. The Samuel Gompers Memorial.

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• Authors: Melissa Dabakis, Melissa (Kenyon College Dabakis, Melissa Debakis
• Assisted by: Patricia Hills (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.1999
• EAN: 9780521461474
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46147-4
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous