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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, James Sloan
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2002], ©2002.
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
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.
Physical Description:xvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.