Mr. Pivner as Above so Below with Lewis Mumford's The City in History & The WPA Guide to NYC

[alice wellintown]

"...the novel reveals how we have romanticized imperialism in the name
of travel and discovery..."

This argument, from Russell's study, has a family resmblance to
Dewey's argument about museums.

 The segregation of art from everyday life came with the rise of
nationalism and imperialism. The Louvre began as a place to house
Napoleon's loot. The rise of capitalism, with its valuation of rare
and costly objects, also contributed to the development of the museum,
as did the need to show good taste in an increasingly materialist
world.