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American interventions and modern art in South America
- Title
- American interventions and modern art in South America / Olga U. Herrera.
- Author
- Herrera, Olga U.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative.
- Description
- xix, 319 pages, 57 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- This book tells the little-known story of how the United States used modern art as a cultural defense strategy in South America during World War II. Organized by Nelson A. Rockefeller, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs supported traveling exhibitions of American paintings, furniture and poster design competitions for artists across both hemispheres, widespread distribution of films with South American themes, and circulation of Latin American art within the United States. These exchanges of art and ideas were meant to counter negative views of U.S. culture spread by Nazi and totalitarian sympathizers. Olga Herrera shows how the program was an unprecedented public-private model of support for the arts, a driving force in the emergence of a Latin American art market in the United States, and a foundation for global art networks still in place today.
- Subjects
- Propaganda, American
- Latin America
- Diplomatic relations
- Propaganda
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war
- Art and society > History
- Art
- United States > Foreign relations > Latin America > History
- World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Public opinion
- United States > Office of Inter-American Affairs > History
- 1900-1999
- World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda
- History
- Public opinion
- World War, 1939-1945 > Latin America > Public opinion
- Propaganda, American > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Art.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Art and democracy come together -- Reorienting the hemisphere: American modern art and national defense -- Art deployed: contemporary North American painting in South America -- ¡Saludos amigos! furniture, posters, motion pictures -- Commercial and cultural networks: South American modern art in the United States -- The art of defense -- The defense of art: Lincoln Kirstein and the modern art acquisition trip to South America, 1942 -- Aftermath: modern art, cultural flows, and global networks.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-11006
- ISBN
- 9780813056500
- 0813056500
- LCCN
- 2017030439
- OCLC
- 982398467
- Author
- Herrera, Olga U., author.
- Title
- American interventions and modern art in South America / Olga U. Herrera.
- Publisher
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-11006