| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Melissa Dabakis. Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880–1935. (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. xvi, 296. $80.00.

In contrast to two-dimensional media, sculptural representations of American labor are poorly known. In a series of thematic studies, Melissa Dabakis analyzes sculptors' interpretations of the transformation of labor, class conflict, and workers' organization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The studies cover public monuments sponsored mostly by labor organizations and employers to memorialize major labor conflicts, capitalists, and labor unions; academic sculpture; the reception of the work of Belgian sculptor Constantin Meunier by middle-class Americans during the Progressive era; the emergence of a private market for small-scale sculpture, including representations of labor, after 1900; and work by sculptors sympathetic to both radical organizations and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) between 1900 and 1935. The studies of early twentieth-century sculpture are particularly impressive. Through contemporary photographs, exhibition reviews, and surviving plaster models, Dabakis retrieves a largely lost body of work that both labor and art historians have inexcusably forgotten. . . .

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