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Cold War modernists : art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy / Greg Barnhisel.
Author
Barnhisel, Greg, 1969-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Description
xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subject(s)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Political aspects
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Propaganda
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Cold War
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Political aspects
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United States
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Art
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Political aspects
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Politics and literature
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United States
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History
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20th century
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United States
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Cultural policy
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United States
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Intellectual life
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20th century
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United States
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Politics and government
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1945-1953
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United States
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Politics and government
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1953-1961
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Summary note
"An examination of the legacy of modernism as a cultural movement and propaganda tool during the Cold War and the 1950s in America"--Provided by publisher.
"European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling art exhibits, touring musical shows, radio programs, book translations, and conferences, they deployed the revolutionary aesthetics of modernism to prove--particularly to the leftists whose Cold War loyalties they hoped to secure--that American art and literature were aesthetically rich and culturally significant. Yet by repurposing modernism, American diplomats and cultural authorities turned the avant-garde into the establishment. They remade the once revolutionary movement into a content-free collection of artistic techniques and styles suitable for middlebrow consumption. 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. Drawing on interviews, previously unknown archival materials, and the stories of such figures and institutions as William Faulkner, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, James Laughlin, and Voice of America, Barnhisel reveals how the U.S. government reconfigured modernism as a trans-Atlantic movement, a joint endeavor between American and European artists, with profound implications for the art that followed and for the character of American identity"--Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Freedom, individualism, modernism
"Advancing American art" : modernist painting and public-private partnerships
Cold warriors of the book : American book programs in the 1950s
Encounter magazine and the twilight of modernism
Perspectives USA and the economics of Cold War modernism
American modernism in American broadcasting : the voice of (middlebrow) America.
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ISBN
9780231162302 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
0231162308 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2014017122
OCLC
892620154
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Cold War modernists : art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy, 1946-1959 / Greg Barnhisel ; cover design, Lisa Force.
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Cold War modernists : art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy, 1946-1959 / Greg Barnhisel ; cover design, Lisa Force.
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