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UNINA9910463094203321 |
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Davis Ben <1979-> |
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9.5 theses on art and class / / Ben Davis |
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Chicago, Illinois : , : Haymarket Books, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Art and society |
Art - Political aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-216) and index. |
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Contents; Introduction; Art and Class; ONE: Art and Class; TWO: 9.5 Theses on Art and Class; Art and Politics; THREE: What Good Is Political Artin Times Like These?; FOUR: Collective Delusions; FIVE: How Political Are Aesthetic Politics?; Art and Its Audiences; SIX: Art and Inequality; SEVEN: The Agony of the Interloper; EIGHT: Beneath Street Art, the Beach; NINE: White Walls, Glass Ceiling; TEN: Hipster Aesthetics; Art and Theory; ELEVEN: Commerce and Consciousness; TWELVE: Crisis and Criticism; THIRTEEN: In Defense of Concepts; FOURTEEN: The Semi-Post-Postmodern Condition; Conclusions |
FIFTEEN: Beyond the Art World SIXTEEN: To the Future; Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Author |
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Ben Davis draws the curtain back on the contemporary art world to assail its commodified roots. |
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UNINA9910971868703321 |
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McNeill William Hardy <1917-> |
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Hutchins' university : a memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 / / William H. McNeill |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1991 |
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9786612537523 |
9781282537521 |
1282537520 |
9780226561721 |
0226561720 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (ix, 194 pages, [12] pages) : illustrations |
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Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago Press |
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EDUCATION / General |
Chicago (Ill.) History |
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"A Centennial publication of the University of Chicago Press". |
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Includes bibliographical references (171-183) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IN 1929 -- 2. HONEYMOON ON THE MIDWAY 1929-1931 -- 3. CHIAROSCURO OF THE DEPRESSION YEARS 1931-1936 -- 4. THE DRIFT TOWARD WAR 1937-1941 -- 5. THE WAR YEARS 1941-1946 -- 6. BLOOM AND DECAY: THE END OF AN ERA 1946-1950 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of learning and his resounding call for reforms in general education sparked controversy and fueled debate on campus and off. It became a struggle for the |
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heart and soul of higher education-and McNeill, as a student and then as an instructor, was a participant. His account of the university's history is laced with personal reminiscences, encounters with influential fellow scholars such as Richard McKeon, R. S. Crane, and David Daiches, and details drawn from Hutchins' papers and other archives. McNeill sketches the interplay of personalities with changing circumstances of the Depression, war, and postwar eras. But his central concern is with the institutional life of the University, showing how student behavior, staff and faculty activity and even the Hyde Park neighborhood all revolved around the charismatic figure of Robert Maynard Hutchins-shaped by him and in reaction against him. Successive transformations of the College, and the tribulations of the ideal of general or liberal education are central to much of the story; but the memoir also explores how the University was affected by such events as Red scares, the remarkably successful Round Table radio broadcasts, the abolition of big time football, and the inauguration of the nuclear age under the west stands of Stagg Field in 1942. In short, Hutchins' University sketches an extraordinarily vibrant period for the University of Chicago and for American higher education. It will revive old controversies among veterans from those times, and may provoke others to reflect anew about the proper role of higher education in American society. |
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