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Politics and Beauty in America - The Liberal Aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Politics and Beauty in America - The Liberal Aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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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wagons is rescinded.
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