Cold War Modernists : Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1.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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Modernism (Aesthetics) - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century.