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Earnest Elmo Calkins published an article in The Atlantic Monthly titled “Beauty the New Business Tool.”Read more at location 690
“The best surprise is no surprise,” the slogan Holiday Inn adopted in 1975, summed up several decades of economic progress. Americans were more concerned with avoiding below-par experiences than achieving unique or extraordinary ones.Read more at location 721
Even in the stylistically exuberant period that Hine dubs the decade of “Populuxe,” from 1954 to 1964, aesthetics was most important for textile-based fashions—theRead more at location 732
Aesthetics is not a luxury, but a universal human desire. Those anticapitalists who criticize markets for luring consumers into wanting more than their basic needs, and those capitalists who scoff at aesthetics for detracting from serious work, are missing a fundamental fact of human nature.Read more at location 866
Instead of a single dominant standard, then, we see aesthetic fluidity.Read more at location 1187
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