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Looking For America : The Visual Production Of Nation And People

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The Public Life Of The Arts In America

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American Culture Between The Wars : Revisionary Modernism & Postmodern Critique

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American Modernism Across The Arts

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The Lively Arts : Gilbert Seldes And The Transformation Of Cultural Criticism In The United States

  • The Lively Arts : Gilbert Seldes And The Transformation Of Cultural Criticism In The United States

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    Michael Kammen

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 1996

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    Born in 1893, Seldes saw in his lifetime an astonishing series of innovations in popular and mass culture: silent films and talkies, the phonograph and the radio, the coming of television, and the proliferation of journalism aimed at mainstream America in such venues as Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire. One of popular culture’s earliest and most eloquent champions, Seldes was nonetheless publicly worried as early as 1937 that the popularity of radio, film, and television would mean the demise of the “private art of reading.” It offers a penetrating and timely analysis of Gilbert Seldes’s pioneering conviction that the popular and the great arts must not only co-exist but enrich one another if we are to realize the innovation and intensity of American culture at its best. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  N7483.S38 K36 1996  AVAILABLE

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Beat Culture And The New America, 1950-1965

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The Arts And The American Home, 1890-1930

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How Art Becomes History : Essays On Art, Society, And Culture In Post-New Deal America

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Culture Of Complaint : The Fraying Of America

  • Culture Of Complaint : The Fraying Of America

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    Robert Hughes

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 1993

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    The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture. To the left, he skewers political correctness (”political etiquette, not politics itself”), Afrocentrism, and academic obsessions with theory (”The world changes more deeply, widely, thrillingly than at any moment since 1917, perhaps since 1848, and the American academic left keeps fretting about how phallocentricity is inscribed in Dickens’ portrayal of Little Nell”). If Hughes lambastes some aspects of American politics, he applauds Vaclav Havel’s vision of politics “not as the art of the useful, but politics as practical morality, as service to the truth.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NX180.S6 H85 1993  AVAILABLE

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Strange Bedfellows : The First American Avant-garde

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The Shape Of Culture : A Study Of Contemporary Cultural Patterns In The United States

  • The Shape Of Culture : A Study Of Contemporary Cultural Patterns In The United States

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    Judith R. Blau

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    Book, Cambridge University Press, 1989

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    Using information on several thousands of cultural organizations, including opera and chamber music companies as well as cinemas and live rock concerts, Professor Blau examines the geography of culture, the changing demands for culture, the interdependencies among cultural organizations of different kinds, the nature of labor markets for artists, and the effects of arts subsidies on nonprofit cultural establishments over a ten year period. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NX180.S6 B56 1989  AVAILABLE

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Government And The Arts In Thirties America : A Guide To Oral Histories And Other Research Materials

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Trivializing America

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