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Beautiful democracy [[electronic resource] ] : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era / / Russ Castronovo



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Autore: Castronovo Russ <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beautiful democracy [[electronic resource] ] : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era / / Russ Castronovo Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4/70973
Soggetto topico: Aesthetics, American
Arts - United States
Democracy - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612069697
1-282-06969-1
0-226-09630-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453998203321
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