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Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War

Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War

Franke, Anselm
Ghouse, Nida
Guevara, Paz

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ISBN10: 3956795083
ISBN13: 9783956795084
Publisher: Sternberg Pr
Published: Aug 24 2021
Pages: 616
Weight: 4.34
Height: 1.52 Width: 8.60 Depth: 11.61
Language: English
An examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Parapolitics confronts the contemporary fate of intellectual autonomy and artistic freedom by revisiting the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony. It builds on a major exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2017-18) that took as its starting point the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF)--an organization covertly funded by the Central Intelligence Agency in order to steer the Left away from its remaining commitment to communism. Paying particular attention to CCF activities in the non-European world during a period of decolonization and the Civil Rights Movement, Parapolitics assembles archival documentation from five continents alongside a selection of historical artworks to explore the context in which artists negotiated the framing and meaning of their work. A rich reference book for future researchers and everybody interested in the legacy of modernism, the publication also presents more than thirty newly commissioned contributions by contemporary artists and scholars.

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