LEADER 04640nam 2200769 450 001 9910826496903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-53862-6 024 7 $a10.7312/barn16230 035 $a(CKB)3710000000347820 035 $a(OCoLC)905916993 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary11024427 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420938 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12540650 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420938 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11408389 035 $a(PQKB)11275584 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001133093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1912259 035 $a(DE-B1597)458242 035 $a(OCoLC)979683246 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231538626 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1912259 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11024427 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL726783 035 $a(OCoLC)902419278 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000347820 100 $a20150306h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCold War modernists $eart, literature, and American cultural diplomacy, 1946-1959 /$fGreg Barnhisel ; cover design, Lisa Force 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-95501-8 311 $a0-231-16230-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tAbbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. FREEDOM, INDIVIDUALISM, MODERNISM --$t2. "ADVANCING AMERICAN ART" --$t3. COLD WARRIORS OF THE BOOK: AMERICAN BOOK PROGRAMS IN THE 1950's --$t4. ENCOUNTER MAGAZINE AND THE TWILIGHT OF MODERNISM --$t5. PERSPECTIVES USA AND THE ECONOMICS OF COLD WAR MODERNISM --$t6. AMERICAN MODERNISM IN AMERICAN BROADCASTING: THE VOICE OF (MIDDLEBROW) AMERICA --$tCONCLUSION --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aEuropean 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. 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPropaganda$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aArt$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xCultural policy 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1953 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1953-1961 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics)$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPropaganda$xHistory 615 0$aCold War$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aArt$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 676 $a973.91 700 $aBarnhisel$b Greg$f1969-$01694765 702 $aForce$b Lisa 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826496903321 996 $aCold War modernists$94073519 997 $aUNINA