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Politics and Beauty in America: The Liberal Aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl
Timothy J. Lukes
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPJ; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
466g
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137020888
SKU
V9781137020888
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About Timothy J. Lukes
Timothy J. Lukes is Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University, USA. His research interests include the Italian Renaissance, American political culture, and contemporary political thought. His books have won awards from the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association and the Asian American Studies Association, and his article on Progressives and Asian communities in California ... Read more
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