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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231538626
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E169 .C653 2015
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Subject: American cultural diplomats of the 1940s and 1950s sought to show European intellectuals that the United States had more to offer than military power and commercial exploitation. Through 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 culturally rich and politically significant. Yet by repurposing modernism, American diplomats and cultural authorities rema.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction E169.12 .294 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn902419278

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Table of Contents; Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1.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

American cultural diplomats of the 1940s and 1950s sought to show European intellectuals that the United States had more to offer than military power and commercial exploitation. Through 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 culturally rich and politically significant. Yet by repurposing modernism, American diplomats and cultural authorities rema.

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