| Description |
xvi, 296 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
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Cambridge studies in American visual culture
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Subject |
Labor in art.
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Sculpture, American.
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Sculpture, Modern -- 19th century.
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Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0521461472 (hb) |
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