02928nam 22006854a 450 991045399820332120200520144314.097866120696971-282-06969-10-226-09630-010.7208/9780226096308(CKB)1000000000724104(EBL)432204(OCoLC)646810174(SSID)ssj0000109473(PQKBManifestationID)11795022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109473(PQKBWorkID)10059002(PQKB)10352369(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117458(MiAaPQ)EBC432204(DE-B1597)524824(OCoLC)1055474262(DE-B1597)9780226096308(Au-PeEL)EBL432204(CaPaEBR)ebr10288686(CaONFJC)MIL206969(EXLCZ)99100000000072410420070126d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeautiful democracy[electronic resource] aesthetics and anarchy in a global era /Russ CastronovoChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-09629-7 0-226-09628-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.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 -- IndexThe 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 proviAesthetics, AmericanArtsUnited StatesDemocracyUnited StatesUnited StatesCivilizationElectronic books.Aesthetics, American.ArtsDemocracy306.4/70973Castronovo Russ1965-941226MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453998203321Beautiful democracy2122953UNINA