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100 1 _aBarnhisel, Greg.
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245 1 0 _aCold War Modernists
_bArt, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy.
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260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c(c)2015.
300 _a1 online resource (337 pages)
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505 0 0 _aTable of Contents; Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1.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
520 0 _aAmerican 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 proveĀ—particularly to the leftists whose Cold War loyalties they hoped to secureĀ—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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650 4 _aPropaganda.
650 4 _aUnited States.
650 0 _aModernism (Aesthetics)
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPropaganda
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCold War
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aArt
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell