Sure, let’s feed the fantasy of postmodern novelists and cultural-studies professors that their work has political consequences in the real world. “It’s subversive, man!”https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1170759576259616769 …
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But why would the CIA have supported abstract expressionism if they thought realist art was a key to upholding the existing social order?
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Different art forms. In painting, realism was associated with socialist agitprop and proletarian documentation. In fiction, realism was the preserve of middle-class navel gazing.
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