| Description |
xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in American visual culture
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Cambridge studies in American visual culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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Labor in art. |
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Sculpture, American -- 19th century.
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Sculpture, American. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Sculpture, American -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
0521283272 |
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9780521283274 |
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9780521283272 |
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