Title Cold War modernists : art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy, 1946-1959 / Greg Barnhisel ; cover design, Lisa Force.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note	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.
	United States -- Cultural policy.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
	HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
	ART -- Criticism & Theory.
	Kunst.
	Literatur.
	Moderne.
	Ost-West-Konflikt.
	United States.
Added Author	Force, Lisa, cover designer.
Other Form:	Print version: Barnhisel, Greg, 1969- Cold War modernists. New York : Columbia University Press, 2015 9780231162302 (DLC) 2014017122 (OCoLC)892620154
ISBN	9780231538626 (electronic bk.)
	0231538626 (electronic bk.)
Music No.	EB00640363 Recorded Books

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