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Cold War Modernists : Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231538626
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cold War ModernistsDDC classification:
  • 700.4112
LOC classification:
  • E169.12 -- .B376 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Freedom, Individualism, Modernism -- 2. "Advancing American Art": Modernist Painting and Public-Private Partnerships -- 3. Cold Warriors of the Book: American Book Programs in the 1950s -- 4. Encounter Magazine and the Twilight of Modernism -- 5. Perspectives USA and the Economics of Cold War Modernism -- 6. American Modernism in American Broadcasting: The Voice of (Middlebrow) America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Freedom, Individualism, Modernism -- 2. "Advancing American Art": Modernist Painting and Public-Private Partnerships -- 3. Cold Warriors of the Book: American Book Programs in the 1950s -- 4. Encounter Magazine and the Twilight of Modernism -- 5. Perspectives USA and the Economics of Cold War Modernism -- 6. American Modernism in American Broadcasting: The Voice of (Middlebrow) America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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