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

ISBN-13: 9780521461474 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 314 str.

Ohio) Melissa Dabakis (Kenyon College

Opis

This book 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 that subsidized American artists during the Great Depression. Restoring a group of important monuments to the history of labor, gender studies and American art history, this book analyzes key monuments and small-scale works in which labor was often constituted as "manly" and where the work ethic mediated both production and reception.

Recenzje

"Offering a refreshing thematic approach to a study of American sculpture, this book connects the subject of American labor in both large- and small-scale sculpture to the context of history, gender roles, and even the dynamics of labor-management." Choice

Spis treści

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.