@starsandrobots I hears that they funded a lot of abstract expressionism, as a way to create non-political art.
Epilogue of The Gift continues to amaze: US 1940s CIA had a covert mission to support the arts in USA, contradicting then-congress.
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@anca the case made for covert/CIA+abstract expressionism was, to make soviet realism seem even more rigid & confined— definitely political!
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@dakami 1940s CIA undercut Congress to covertly fund the arts: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ghq7X_YPvewC&lpg=PA373&ots=dGXtZNBIDW&pg=PA372#v=onepage&f=false … ("All Art is Communistic" -- Mo. senator) -
@starsandrobots@dakami Section 3 (on page 6) of this (oddly discursive) document makes some reference to it. http://nadfly.com/docs/secreart.pdf …
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@starsandrobots not sure I follow. Are you talking about an article online? Or movie? -
@DocPop I admit: I've been reading a tree-paper book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Gift-Creativity-Artist-Modern/dp/0307279502 … (really like, recommend) -
@starsandrobots ah, that helps. Reading up on it now, sounds neato.
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