Politics of Taste ...
Hosted by The Actors and Filmmakers Workshop
Details
Politics of Taste: Republic of Taste … author talk … open to the public … registration ($10) required … (register HERE (https://www.masshist.org/calendar)) …
Monday, March 20th, 6-7pm … (pre-talk reception at 5:30) …
Massachusetts Historical Society - 1154 Boylston Street, Boston
Catherine E. Kelly, University of Oklahoma
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Politics of Taste series - Mary Otis Gray
Program 1: Republic of Taste - Whether Americans believed that taste was innate or acquired, it was widely believed that shared aesthetic sensibilities connected like-minded individuals and that shared affinities advanced the public good and held great promise for the American republic. Catherine E. Kelly demonstrates how American thinkers acknowledged the similarities between aesthetics and politics in order to wrestle with questions about power and authority. In the years following independence, ordinary women and men reassured themselves that taste revealed larger truths about an individual's character and potential for republican citizenship.