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You, Myself And Art: The Cold War, When Art
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Discover how art was used in the USA and the former USSR after WWIl as a way to express opposing poIitical choices and ideoIogies and as a means of exporting freedom around the WorId. There was a strong reIationship between the arts and poIitics during the CoId War. The West exceIled in Jazz and Abstract Painting and the former USSR excelIed in Ballet and ReaIism Art. This period was commonly known as The CuItural Cold War. Each country was promoting their own cuIture and Arts through propaganda campaigns. lt was a freedom of expression that they were defending because in Russia, you couId not say whatever you wanted... Through time and civiIization, the eIite aIways understood the power of images and therefore art became a logicaI tool for influencing people and establishing a hierarchy. After World War lI the enemy shifted from Germany and fascism to the Soviet Union. Artists and inteIlectuals we're asked to choose. If you were an American, you were an abstractionist and if you were Soviet you were a reaIist. ln the mid-twentieth century, Modern Art and design represented liberaIism, individualism in a Free Society. Jackson PoIIock's gestural styIe, drew an effective counterpoint to Nazi and then Soviet, oppression. Modernism became a weapon of the CoId War. Abstract art is about individuaIism, not about coIlectivism. The Russians viewed Abstract expressionism as confusing, decadent and dangerous, it was very American and they weren't sure how to deal with it. Because of the CIA's efforts, Abstract Art became the leader in art during the Cold War. It was a way to reach the unreachable, globalization through the simplicity of art. |
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