tailieunhanh - VISUALIZING LABOR IN AMERICAN SCULPTURE: MONUMENTS, MANLINESS, AND THE WORK ETHIC, 1880-1935

As this article will argue, these archaeological discoveries and the subsequent displays arising from them provided a new visual and material culture of archaeology that inspired a British re-fashioning both in clothing and identity. The work of imagining the impact of classical Greek dress – on the body, health, and national fitness – provoked new ways of considering British civilisation both in relation to the ancient world and to existing cultures of nationhood in the 1880s. In the dress reform movement, and in the use of costume for stage drama a new creative fashioning of Britishness (and especially female. | VISUALIZING LABOR IN AMERICAN SCULPTURE MONUMENTS MANLINESS AND THE WORK ETHIC 1880-1935 MELISSA DABAKIS Kenyon College ggj Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS published by the press syndicate of the university of Cambridge The Pitt Building Trumpington Street Cambridge United Kingdom Cambridge university press The Edinburgh Building Cambridge CB2 2RU uk http 40 West 20th Street New York NY 10011-4211 USA http 10 Stamford Road Oakleigh Melbourne 3166 Australia Melissa Dabakis 1999 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1999 Printed in the United States of America Typefaces New Baskerville 10 13 pt. and Futura System DeskTopPro ux RF A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dabakis Melissa. Visualizing labor in American sculpture monuments manliness and the work ethic. 1880-1935 Melissa Dabakis. p. cm. Cambridge studies in American visual culture Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-521-46147-2 hb 1. Labor in art. 2. Sculpture American. 3. Sculpture. Modern 19th century United States. 4. Sculpture Modern 20th century United States. I. Title. II. Series. 1999 730 .973 dc21 98-45452 CIP ISBN 0 521 46147 2 hardback CONTENTS List of Illustrations page xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 one From Craftsman to Operative The Work Ethic Ideology and American Art 10 two Martyrs and Monuments The Haymarket Affair 35 three The Spectacle of Labor The World s Columbian Exposition of 1893 62 four The Erotics of the Laboring Body Douglas Tilden s Mechanics Fountain 83 five A Museological Tribute to the Work Ethic The Constantin Meunier Exhibition 105 six The Stoker the Ragpicker and the Striker American Genre Sculpture in the Progressive Era 127 .