[PDF.21ow] Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

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

[PDF.by88] Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

Cold War Modernists: Art,  Greg Barnhisel epub
Cold War Modernists: Art,  Greg Barnhisel pdf download
Cold War Modernists: Art,  Greg Barnhisel pdf file
Cold War Modernists: Art,  Greg Barnhisel audiobook
Cold War Modernists: Art,  Greg Barnhisel book review
Cold War Modernists: Art,  Greg Barnhisel summary

 | #1397630 in Books |  imusti |  2015-02-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.40 x6.10 x9.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

 | Columbia University Press

---

||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Changes my view of the 50s and 60s|By John J. Emerson|This is a remarkable book whose implications I still haven't fully digested. American modernism (e.g. abstract art and bebop) was used by the CIA and others as a Cold War weapon both in Western and Eastern Europe. Along with that came a redefinition of modernism as unrestricted individual freedom, apolitical and stripped of| |This is a thoroughly excellent book, a magnum opus of genuine scholarship, and a genuine delight for readers. (Lawrence Rainey, University of York)

This book fills a long-felt need for a scholarly work on the importance of U.S. cultural exchange wit

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...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy   |  Greg Barnhisel. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

Download Now