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The romance of commerce and culture : capitalism, modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen crusade for cultural reform / James Sloan Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, James Sloan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, American--20th century.
- Arts, American.
- Arts and society--United States.
- Arts and society.
- Popular culture.
- Technology and the arts.
- United States.
- Technology and the arts--United States.
- Arts--United States--Marketing.
- Arts.
- Marketing.
- Popular culture--Illinois--Chicago.
- Popular culture--Colorado--Aspen.
- Colorado--Aspen.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2002]
- Summary:
- Revised and updated, The Romance of Commerce and Culture is a lively and provocative history of how art and intellect formed an alliance with consumer capitalism in the mid-twentieth century and put Aspen, Colorado, on the map.
- Contents:
- Modernist culture and its critics in Chicago
- Modernist marketing: the consumer revolution
- Container Corporation of America
- Marketing modernism: Moholy-Nagy
- Bauhaus in America
- Great books and cultural reform: the Chicago Bildungsideal
- Healing the wounds of war
- Magic mountain: discovering Aspen
- Selling the postwar Goethe
- Celebrating the postwar Goethe
- Birth of the Aspen idea
- Aspen and America in the fifties-and after
- Consensus, criticism, and the new American elite
- Aspen muses and the twilight of modernism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870816543
- OCLC:
- 49332768
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