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050 00 $aBH221.U5$bB36 2007
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100 1 $aBanta, Martha.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86001322
245 10 $aOne true theory & the quest for an American aesthetic /$cMartha Banta.
246 3 $aOne true theory and the quest for an American aesthetic
246 3 $a1 true theory & the quest for an American aesthetic
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axxx, 306 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-301) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tAn American Aesthetic and Its Travails -- $tThe Burning Question -- $tMeasuring Up to Veblenism -- $tLagging Arts/Advancing Sciences -- $tThe Economics of Cultural Deficit -- $tAngers of Influence -- $tTechnics, Technics! -- $tNature, God, Art, Science -- $tGod's Time/Government Time -- $tRaw, Ripe, Rot -- $tTransitions without Resolutions -- $tAnxieties of Modernity -- $tCase Studies: Adaptations to Veblenism -- $t"The Normal Man" -- $gPt. 2.$tCapitol of Best Intentions -- $tThe Perfect Republic: Comparative Perspectives -- $tCreation Ab Ova: How Washington, D.C. Came About (1783-1790) -- $tThe Southern Factor -- $tCelebratory Histories: Old and New Style -- $tRepublican Virtue on Display -- $tWaiting for Greatness to Happen (1820-1860) -- $tFrom a National Aesthetic to Nationalist Art -- $tThe Washington Problem -- $tReacting to Rome et al -- $tA History of One's Choosing -- $tMontgomery Meigs and the Remaking of Washington, D.C. -- $tAmerica's "Freedom"/Venice's "Justice" -- $tThe New Washington, D.C. -- $tThe White City -- $tThe Unbearable Lightness of the Void -- $tAesthetics of Death: The Mall and Beyond -- $tWashington by Moonlight -- $tParaphrases of the Ideal/Allegories of the Real -- $gPt. 3.$tAesthetic Lives: The Literary Approach -- $tBeyond the Terrace -- $tMath and Emotion -- $tBifurcated Minds -- $tPride of Knowledge -- $tCosts of Knowing -- $tTheories Incarnate/Forms Divine -- $tLes Objets d'Art -- $tAesthetics of Fellowship -- $tCreate, Decay, and Destroy -- $tFatal Muses -- $tRivals to the Death -- $tPiercing the Wall.
520 1 $a"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 nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions of those who rose to this urgent challenge-artists, architects, writers, politicians, and the technocrats of scientific inquiry-brought about an engrossing tangle of achievements and failures."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAesthetics, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001444
650 0 $aArts$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008335
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012623.html
852 00 $bglx$hBH221.U5$iB36 2007