Main entry:

Allen, James Sloan, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Description:

xv, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernist 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.

ISBN:

0226014584
9780226014586
0226014592
9780226014593

Subject:

Moholy-Nagy, László 1895-1946
Arts, American 20th century.
Arts and society United States.
Technology and the arts.
Arts Marketing.
Popular culture Illinois Chicago.
Popular culture Colorado Aspen.
Arts États-Unis 20e siècle.
Arts et société États-Unis.
Technologie et arts.
Culture populaire Illinois Chicago.
Culture populaire Colorado Aspen.
Arts américains 20e siècle.
Arts, American
Arts and society
Popular culture
Kunst.
Kapitalisme.
Arts Aspect social États-Unis.
Technologie et arts États-Unis.
Culture populaire Chicago (Ill.)
Culture populaire Colorado (États-Unis)
Colorado Aspen
Illinois Chicago
United States
United States Business enterprise Role in arts, 1935-1960

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 60391
Call No.: ID:85-B6984
Status: Available