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Author Barnhisel, Greg, 1969- author.

Title Cold War modernists : art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy, 1946-1959 / Greg Barnhisel ; cover design, Lisa Force
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Contents Freedom, individualism, modernism -- "Advancing American art" : modernist painting and public-private partnerships -- Cold warriors of the book : American book programs in the 1950s -- Encounter magazine and the twilight of modernism -- Perspectives USA and the economics of Cold War modernism -- American modernism in American broadcasting : the voice of (middlebrow) America
Summary "An examination of the legacy of modernism as a cultural movement and propaganda tool during the Cold War and the 1950s in America"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Propaganda -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Cold War -- Political aspects -- United States
Art -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
Art -- Political aspects
Cultural policy
Intellectual life
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Propaganda
Kunst
Literatur
Moderne
Ost-West-Konflikt
SUBJECT United States -- Cultural policy
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140466
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140468
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Force, Lisa, cover designer
ISBN 9780231538626
0231538626
0231162308
9780231162302