TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnhisel,Greg
TI  - Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
SN  - 9780231538626
AV  - E169 .C653 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - United States
KW  - Modernism (Aesthetics)
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Art
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Table of Contents; Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1.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; 2; b
N2  - 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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