One true theory & the quest for an American aesthetic /
"Counter Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major 'testing grounds' where nineteen...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2007]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vm6d2 |
Table of Contents:
- Part One. An American Aesthetic and Its Travails. The Burning Question ; Measuring Up to Veblenism ; Lagging Arts/Advancing Sciences ; The Economics of Cultural Deficit ; Angers of Influence ;Technics, Technics! ; Nature, God, Art, Science ; God's Time/Government Time ; Raw, Ripe, Rot ; Transitions without Resolutions ; Anxieties of Modernity ; Case Studies: Adaptations to Veblenism ; 'The Normal Man'
- Part Two. Capitol of Best Intentions. The Perfect Republic: Comparative Perspectives ; Creation Ab Ova: How Washington, D.C. Came About (1783-1790) ; The Southern Factor ; Celebratory Histories: Old and New Style ; Republican Virtue on Display ; Waiting for Greatness to Happen (1820-1860) ; From a National Aesthetic to Nationalist Art ; The Washington Problem ; Reacting to Rome et al. ; A History of One's Choosing ; Montgomery Meigs and the Remaking of Washington, D.C. ; America's 'Freedom'/Venice's 'Justice' ; The New Washington, D.C. ; The White City ; The Unbearable Lightness of the Void ; Aesthetics of Death: The Mall and Beyond ; Washington by Moonlight ; Paraphrases of the Ideal/Allegories of the Real
- Part Three. Aesthetic Lives: The Literary Approach. Beyond the Terrace ; Math and Emotion ; Bifurcated Minds ; Pride of Knowledge ; Costs of Knowing ; Theories Incarnate/Forms Divine ; Les Objets d'Art ; Aesthetics of Fellowship ; Create, Decay, and Destroy ; Fatal Muses ; Rivals to the Death ; Piercing the Wall.