Shared images : a history of American art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War /
Who organized numerous exhibitions of American art in the Cold War Soviet Union - and why? Did Americans truly want to "subvert" the Soviet regime with abstraction, and were the Soviets really "afraid" of non-figurative art? And, most noteworthy, can we adequately assess the role...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2025]
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| Series: | Rethinking the Cold War (Berlin, Germany) ;
v. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Art Canons and the Cold War
- Part One: Painting by Marxism: American Art in Soviet Reflection
- Chapter 1 The Ugly Shapes of American Modernism
- Chapter 2 Laughing at the Unseen
- Chapter 3 Andrei Chegodaev, American Realism, and Marxist Illusions
- Chapter 4 At Home among Strangers: Rockwell Kent and Soviet Promotion of American Art
- Part Two: Reconsidering Abstraction, or the Moderate Modernism of USIA Exhibitions
- Chapter 5 Cold War Myths of Abstraction: A Critique of One Popular Idea
- Chapter 6 Objectives and Subjectivities of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959
- Chapter 7 Graphic Arts: USA, 1963-1964: Ultimate Simulation
- Conclusion: American Art as Cold War Legacy
- Appendix: List of Major Exhibitions of American Visual Art in the Soviet Union from the Late 1920s to the Late 1960s
- List of Figures
- Selected Bibliography
- Name Index