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

Barnhisel, Greg, 1969- Book - 2015 973.91 Ba 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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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.
"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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780231162302

SUBJECTS
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century.
Propaganda -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Cultural policy.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.