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Beautiful democracy : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era / Russ Castronovo.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castronovo, Russ, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, American.
- Arts--United States.
- Arts.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, "I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club." Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture-civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors-to reveal that beauty provi
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Aesthetics and the Anarchy of Global Culture
- 1. Flowers and Billy Clubs
- 2. American Literature Internationale
- 3. Beauty Along the Color Line
- 4 . "bombs of laughter"
- 5. Geo-Aesthetics
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612069697
- 9781282069695
- 1282069691
- 9780226096308
- 0226096300
- OCLC:
- 646810174
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