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200 10$aBeautiful democracy$b[electronic resource] $eaesthetics and anarchy in a global era /$fRuss Castronovo
210   $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (302 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. Aesthetics and the Anarchy of Global Culture -- $t1. Flowers and Billy Clubs -- $t2. American Literature Internationale -- $t3. Beauty Along the Color Line -- $t4 . "bombs of laughter" -- $t5. Geo-Aesthetics -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex
330   $aThe 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
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