Beautiful democracy : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era / / Russ Castronovo
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| Autore: |
Castronovo Russ <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Beautiful democracy : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era / / Russ Castronovo
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/70973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aesthetics, American |
| Arts - United States | |
| Democracy - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization |
| Soggetto non controllato: | democracy, 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 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beautiful democracy |
| ISBN: | 9786612069697 |
| 1-282-06969-1 | |
| 0-226-09630-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782826703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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