The Liberal Aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl
by
Timothy J. Lukes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines. For each of the three beauty components, a cultural entrepreneur supremely sensitive to liberalism’s survival agenda is introduced. P.T. Barnum’s exhibition of...