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Politics and beauty in America = the liberal aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Politics and beauty in America/ by Timothy J. Lukes.
Reminder of title:	the liberal aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl /
Author:	Lukes, Timothy J.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US : : 2016.,
Description:	xxiii, 234 p. :digital ;22 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Preface - Hitching Wagons to Stars -- Introduction: Reason over Rhyme -- 1. "Eat Then, Beauty, Said the Monster" -- 2. Swords and Scabbards: Locke's Occupation of Shaftesbury and Burke -- 3. Humbug Feminism: P. T. Barnum, Sara Baartman, and Joice Heth -- 4. Hats Off to Jenny Lind -- 5. John Muir and the Beauty of Poison Oak -- 6. Turbulent and Laminar Flow: From Henry Adams to Harley Earl -- 7. Reconstructing Beauty: Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, and Ornette Coleman.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Aesthetics, American - Political aspects. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-02090-1
ISBN:	9781137020901

Politics and beauty in America = the liberal aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl /
Lukes, Timothy J.

Politics and beauty in Americathe liberal aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl /[electronic resource] :by Timothy J. Lukes. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - xxiii, 234 p. :digital ;22 cm.

Preface - Hitching Wagons to Stars -- Introduction: Reason over Rhyme -- 1. "Eat Then, Beauty, Said the Monster" -- 2. Swords and Scabbards: Locke's Occupation of Shaftesbury and Burke -- 3. Humbug Feminism: P. T. Barnum, Sara Baartman, and Joice Heth -- 4. Hats Off to Jenny Lind -- 5. John Muir and the Beauty of Poison Oak -- 6. Turbulent and Laminar Flow: From Henry Adams to Harley Earl -- 7. Reconstructing Beauty: Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, and Ornette Coleman.

This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines. For each of the three beauty components, a cultural entrepreneur supremely sensitive to liberalism's survival agenda is introduced. P.T. Barnum's exhibition of Jenny Lind is a masterful combination of female elegance and female potency in the subsistence realm. John Muir's Yosemite Valley is surely exquisite, but only after a rigorous liberal education prepares for its experience. And Harley Earl's 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air is a dreamy expressionist sculpture, but with a practical 265 cubic inch V-8 underneath. Not that American beauty has been uniformly pragmatic. The 1950s are reconsidered for having temporarily facilitated a relaxation of the liberal survival priorities, and the creations of painter Jackson Pollock and jazz virtuoso Ornette Coleman are evaluated for their resistance to the pressures of pragmatism. The author concludes with a provocative speculation regarding a future liberal habitat where Emerson's admonition to attach stars to wagons is rescinded.

ISBN: 9781137020901

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-02090-1doiSubjects--Personal Names:

2200427
Barnum, P. T.
1810-1891.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2200429
Aesthetics, American
--Political aspects.

LC Class. No.: BH221.U53 / L85 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 111.850973

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