Title Fall-out shelters for the human spirit : American art and the Cold War / Michael L. Krenn.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.
Contents	Advancing American art -- Art as a weapon -- A delightful political football -- Success at Brussels -- A little too strange for the average Russian -- New frontiers for the government and the arts -- See Venice and propagandize.
Summary	A look at the successes, failures and controversies that arose when the US government and US art world sought to unite to make an international art program a reality between the 1940s and 1970s. It questions the cultural dimensions of US postwar diplomacy and asks how elements of the Cold War led to a redefinition of what is, and isn't, 'American'.
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Subject	Cold War (1945-1989)
	Art and state -- United States.
	Art and state.
	United States.
	Art, American -- 20th century.
	Art, American.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Cold War.
	Propaganda in art.
	Propaganda in art.
	United States -- Cultural policy.
	Cultural policy.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Krenn, Michael L., 1957- Fall-out shelters for the human spirit. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005 0807829455 (DLC) 2004027173 (OCoLC)57002171
ISBN	0807876410 (electronic book)
	9780807876411 (electronic book)