04674nam 2200781 450 991046080490332120200520144314.00-231-53862-610.7312/barn16230(CKB)3710000000347820(OCoLC)905916993(CaPaEBR)ebrary11024427(SSID)ssj0001420938(PQKBManifestationID)12540650(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420938(PQKBWorkID)11408389(PQKB)11275584(StDuBDS)EDZ0001133093(MiAaPQ)EBC1912259(DE-B1597)458242(OCoLC)979683246(DE-B1597)9780231538626(Au-PeEL)EBL1912259(CaPaEBR)ebr11024427(CaONFJC)MIL726783(OCoLC)902419278(EXLCZ)99371000000034782020150306h20152015 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCold War modernists art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy, 1946-1959 /Greg Barnhisel ; cover design, Lisa ForceNew York, [New York] :Columbia University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (337 p.)Includes index.1-322-95501-8 0-231-16230-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources --Acknowledgments --INTRODUCTION --1. FREEDOM, INDIVIDUALISM, MODERNISM --2. "ADVANCING AMERICAN ART" --3. COLD WARRIORS OF THE BOOK: AMERICAN BOOK PROGRAMS IN THE 1950's --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 --IndexEuropean intellectuals of the 1950's 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 the leftists whose Cold War loyalties they hoped to secure-that American art and literature were aesthetically rich and culturally significant. Yet by repurposing modernism, American diplomats and cultural authorities turned the avant-garde into the establishment. They remade the once revolutionary movement into a content-free collection of artistic techniques and styles suitable for middlebrow consumption. 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. Drawing on interviews, previously unknown archival materials, and the stories of such figures and institutions as William Faulkner, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, James Laughlin, and Voice of America, Barnhisel reveals how the U.S. government reconfigured modernism as a trans-Atlantic movement, a joint endeavor between American and European artists, with profound implications for the art that followed and for the character of American identity.Modernism (Aesthetics)Political aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPropagandaUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCold WarPolitical aspectsUnited StatesArtPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesCultural policyUnited StatesIntellectual life20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1953United StatesPolitics and government1953-1961Electronic books.Modernism (Aesthetics)Political aspectsHistoryPropagandaHistoryCold WarPolitical aspectsArtPolitical aspectsHistoryPolitics and literatureHistory973.91Barnhisel Greg1969-1033061Force LisaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460804903321Cold War modernists2451304UNINA