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Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935 (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture) - Softcover

Dabakis, Melissa

 
9780521283274: Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935 (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521283272 ISBN 13: 9780521283274
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A study of American sculpture with themes of labour and manliness.

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Review

"Dabakis' study illuminates the contributions of both public monuments and genre sculptures to contemporary understandings of the value of labor. It is important and innovative in its insistence that constructing meanings for these works was a historically mediated and at times ideologically combative process that actively engaged patrons, artists, and also viewers." Helen Langa, The Journal of American History

"...engaging, provocative, and beautifully designed book. This book's signal achievement is its effective melding of the traditional strengths of art history...For public historians, Dabakis opens up sources and approaches that enrich our consideration of the ways that public memory is expressed, shaped, and contested." The Public Historian

"a sophisticated combination of social and art historical analysis." American Historical Review

"Dabakis has done an extraordinary job researching each of these monumenting to discern the evolving and intertwing discourses about gender, work, and politics that surround each sculptural project...provides helpful historical background" Winterthur Portfolio 36:1

"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

Book Description

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521283272
ISBN 13 
9780521283274
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
314