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Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era Book

Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era, Beautiful Democracy explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago alongside riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles, Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era has a rating of 4 stars
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Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era, Beautiful Democracy explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago alongside riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles, Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
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  • Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
  • Written by author Russ Castronovo
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, September 2007
  • Beautiful Democracy explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago alongside riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles
  • 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 expe
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Illustration     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction: Aesthetics and the Anarchy of Global Culture     1
The Cultured Few     4
Aesthetics 101     8
The Popular Rage     18
Artwork Essays at the Antipodes     22
Flowers and Billy Clubs: The Beauty and Danger of Ethical Citizenship     27
Beauty and Civic Identity     30
Beauty and Science     37
Beauty and Crowd Control     45
Beauty and Danger     55
American Literature Internationale: Translation, Strike, and the Time of Political Possibility     65
Translating Aesthetics to the Common     66
The Time of American Literature     73
1877: The Time is Now     82
Art for the Post-Revolution: Whitman and Santayana     88
The Hazards of New Translation     92
Novelists for (against?) Change     104
Beauty Along the Color Line: Lynching, Form, and Aesthetics     106
Aesthetics versus Art     110
Aestheticizing Violence     116
Organized Propaganda     122
Gendering Aesthetics     128
Alternative Aesthetics     132
"Bombs of Laughter": Motion Pictures,Mass Art, and Universal Language     136
Classic Beauty for Modern Times     141
Du Bois at the Movies: Ugliness, Endlessness, and Jim Crow     152
The Sound of the Image: Chaplin and International Laughter     157
Esperanto of the Eye: Anarchy and Internationalism     173
Geo-Aesthetics: Fascism, Globalism, and Frank Norris     180
Worldwide Unity and Formalism     183
Art and Terror     190
Literature "As Such"     194
Geo-Aesthetics     201
Postfascist Form     209
Afterword     213
Notes     217
Works Cited     255
Index     271


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