The romance of commerce and culture : capitalism, modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen crusade for cultural reform

The romance of commerce and culture : capitalism, modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen crusade for cultural reform / James Sloan Allen.

Author/creator	Allen, James Sloan
Format	Book and Print
Edition	Rev. ed.
Publication Info	Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2002.
Description	xvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	Arts, American--20th century. Arts and society--United States. Technology and the arts--United States. Arts--Marketing --United States. Popular culture--Illinois --Chicago. Popular culture--Colorado --Aspen.

Contents	Moddernist culture and its critics in Chicago -- Modernist marketing: the consumer revolution -- Container Corporation of America -- Marketing modernism: Moholy-Nagy -- Bauhaus in America -- Great books and cultural reform: the Chicago Bildungsideal -- Healing the wounds of war -- Magic mountain: discovering Aspen -- Selling the postwar Goethe -- Celebrating the postwar Goethe -- Birth of the Aspen idea -- Aspen and America in the fifties-and after -- Consensus, criticism, and the new American elite -- Aspen muses and the twilight of modernism.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-345) and index.
LCCN	2002003986
ISBN	0870816543 (pbk. : alk. paper))

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	NX504 .A53 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold