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

By Melissa Dabakis

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521283272
• ISBN13: 9780521283274
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"