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Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era, 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 alwa, 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, 5/15/2009
  • 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 alwa
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Introduction                  Aesthetics and the Anarchy of Culture
The Cultured Few
Aesthetics 11
The Popular Rage
Artwork Essays at the Antipodes
 
Chapter 1         Flowers and Billy Clubs: The Beauty and Danger of Ethical Citizenship
Beauty and Civic Identity
Beauty and Science
Beauty and Crowd Control
Beauty and Danger
 
Chapter 2         American Literature Internationale: Translation, Strike, and the Time of Political Possibility
Translating Aesthetics to the Common
The Time of American Literature
1877: The Time is Now
Art for the Post-Revolution: Whitman and Santayana
The Hazards of New Translation
Novelists for (against?) Change
 
Chapter 3         Beauty along the Color Line: Lynching, Form, and Aesthetics                                       
Aesthetics versus Art
Aestheticizing Violence
Organized Propaganda
Gendering Aesthetics
Alternative Aesthetics  
 
Chapter 4         “Bombs of Laughter”: Motion Pictures, Mass Art, and Universal Language       
Classic Beauty for Modern Times
Du Bois at the Movies: Ugliness, Endlessness, and Jim Crow
The Sound of the Image: Chaplin and International Laughter
Esperanto of the Eye: Anarchy and Internationalism
 
Chapter 5         Geo-Aesthetics: Fascism, Globalism, and Frank Norris
Worldwide Unity and Formalism
Art and Terror
Literature “As Such”
Geo-Aesthetics

Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index


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