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100	1		_aCastronovo, Russ, _d1965- _9435509
245	1	0	_aBeautiful democracy : _baesthetics and anarchy in a global era / _cRuss Castronovo.
263			_a0710
264		1	_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2007.
300			_axiii, 287 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction : aesthetics and the anarchy of global culture -- _g1. _tFlowers and billy clubs : the beauty and danger of ethical citizenship -- _g2. _tAmerican literature internationale : translation, strike, and the time of political possibility -- _g3. _tBeauty along the color line : lynching, form, and aesthetics -- _g4. _t"Bombs of laughter" : motion pictures, mass art, and universal language -- _g5. _tGeo-aesthetics : fascism, globalism, and Frank Norris.
520			_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 provides unexpected occasions for radical, even revolutionary, political thinking. Beautiful Democracy explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Philosophical aesthetics, realist novels, urban photography, and black periodicals, Castronovo argues, inspired and instigated all sorts of collective social endeavors, from the progressive nature of tenement reform to the horrors of lynching. Discussing Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charlie Chaplin, William Dean Howells, and Riis as aesthetic theorists in the company of Kant and Schiller, Beautiful Democracy ultimately suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.
650		0	_aAesthetics, American. _9313476
650		0	_aArts _zUnited States _9680022
650		0	_aDemocracy _zUnited States _9373819
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