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One true theory & the quest for an American aesthetic

By Martha Banta

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0300122977
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30668502 bytes)
Volume
Part 1
Pages
\80
Time added
2021-05-22 21:35:33
Aesthetic

Description

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.

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