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>A contemporary aesthetic that the fools in our art departments crafted in the 1960s under the guiding hand of the CIA Wait what?

• hodwik 11y ago
  "For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years." -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/modern-art-was-cia-weapon_n_781314.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/modern-art-was-cia-... http://cup.columbia.edu/book/cold-war-modernists/9780231162302 http://cup.columbia.edu/book/cold-war-modernists/97802311623... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w... https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/reviews/000423.23joffet.html https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/reviews/000423.23joff...
  • qzxvwt 11y ago
    Super interesting, thanks.