03415nam 22006854a 450 991078282670332120230421230250.097866120696971-282-06969-10-226-09630-010.7208/9780226096308(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|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBeautiful democracy aesthetics and anarchy in a global era /Russ CastronovoChicago :University of Chicago Press,2007.1 online resource (302 pages) illustrationsDescription 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 StatesCivilizationdemocracy, democratic, aesthetics, anarchy, american studies, civic reformers, anarchists, literature, literary, art, creativity, civil rights, activism, radical thinking, revolutionary, beauty, violence, violent, university lectures, riots, domestic terrorism, united states of america, usa, culture, urban photography, arts, citizenship, social transformation, jane addams, progressive era, history, historical, web du bois, william dean howells, charlie chaplin, internationalism.Aesthetics, American.ArtsDemocracy306.4/70973Castronovo Russ1965-1127014MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782826703321Beautiful democracy3746743UNINA