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Review of Casey Nelson Blake, ed., The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4029-0. 361 pages.Review by Andrew HartmanIllinois State UniversityJuly 2010“At stake in every struggle over art there is also the imposition of an art of living, that is, the transmutation of an arbitrary way of living into the

On the heels of my April review of Richard Cándida Smith’s The Modern Moves West, I wrote him with a few questions about the book---and beyond. Here goes:1. Lacy: At first I thought this book might be derived from your dissertation. And the overlap of topics got me thinking about your friendship with Noah Purifoy. But then I noticed that your dissertation abstract makes no mention of Purifoy.