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9780231162302
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American 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 proveparticularly to the leftists whose Cold War loyalties they hoped to securethat American art and literature were culturally rich and politically significant. Yet by repurposing modernism, American diplomats and cultural authorities rema
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Table of Contents; Abbreviations and Note on Unpublished Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1.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
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ISBN 9780231538626
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ISBN 9780231162302
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Print version Cold War Modernists : Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
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Englisch
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