LEADER 03075nam 22007454a 450 001 9910954114303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612069697 010 $a9781282069695 010 $a1282069691 010 $a9780226096308 010 $a0226096300 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226096308 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724104 035 $a(EBL)432204 035 $a(OCoLC)646810174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109473 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11795022 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109473 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10059002 035 $a(PQKB)10352369 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117458 035 $a(DE-B1597)524824 035 $a(OCoLC)1055474262 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226096308 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432204 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288686 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL206969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432204 035 $a(Perlego)1852031 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724104 100 $a20070126d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeautiful democracy $eaesthetics and anarchy in a global era /$fRuss Castronovo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (302 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226096292 311 08$a0226096297 311 08$a9780226096285 311 08$a0226096289 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 606 $aAesthetics, American 606 $aArts$zUnited States 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization 615 0$aAesthetics, American. 615 0$aArts 615 0$aDemocracy 676 $a306.4/70973 700 $aCastronovo$b Russ$f1965-$01127014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954114303321 996 $aBeautiful democracy$94356623 997 $aUNINA