The romance of commerce and culture
Subtitle: capitalism, modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen crusade for cultural reform
By: James Sloan Allen.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moddernist culture and its critics in Chicago; title: Modernist marketing: the consumer revolution; title: Container Corporation of America; title: Marketing modernism: Moholy-Nagy; title: Bauhaus in America; title: Great books and cultural reform: the Chicago Bildungsideal; title: Healing the wounds of war; title: Magic mountain: discovering Aspen; title: Selling the postwar Goethe; title: Celebrating the postwar Goethe; title: Birth of the Aspen idea; title: Aspen and America in the fifties-and after; title: Consensus, criticism, and the new American elite; title: Aspen muses and the twilight of modernism.