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It's fairly well documented and quite interesting that the only reason Pollock is acclaimed is that the coked out CIA hatched a long term plan to use taxpayer f
by droithomme 7y ago
It's fairly well documented and quite interesting that the only reason Pollock is acclaimed is that the coked out CIA hatched a long term plan to use taxpayer funds to bid up the price of the worst and most incoherent art works they could find in order to somehow confound the Communists. There's no evidence the Soviets fell for the ruse, but the western public sure did!
https://medium.com/@MichaelMcBride/how-jackson-pollock-and-the-cia-teamed-up-to-win-the-cold-war-6734c40f5b14 https://medium.com/@MichaelMcBride/how-jackson-pollock-and-t...
https://www.christopherhallart.com/blog/2015/2/10/jackson-pollock-and-the-cia https://www.christopherhallart.com/blog/2015/2/10/jackson-po...
- longerthoughts 7y ago>the worst and most incoherent art works they could find Even if either of the sources you cited suggested that the CIA specifically looked for low-quality art (spoiler: they don't), I'm not sure the CIA qualifies as the foremost authority on artistic achievement.
- goto11 7y agoThat is a total misunderstanding of the purpose behind CIA's promotion of abstract expressionism. The purpose was to win hearts and minds among intellectuals and the culturally inclined outside the US, and it worked very well. Together with stuff like jazz music it vastly increased the cultural prestige of the US during the cold war.