Cold War Modernists - Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

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.

Sommario

Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources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

Info autore

Greg Barnhisel teaches in the English department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. His previous books include James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound and, with Catherine Turner, Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Greg Barnhisel
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.02.2024
• EAN: 9780231216593
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21659-3
• Pagine: 336
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; English, European Art, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, ART / European, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, ART / American / General, History of Art, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1950 to c 1959, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General