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"Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War" (1974)

Cockcroft 1974
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Eva Cockcroft's essay in Artforum, June 1974, arguing that the international promotion of the New York School served an American foreign-policy purpose, whatever the painters thought they were doing.

The essay that started it, and it is the reason nobody can look at a Pollock touring Europe in 1958 without asking who booked the hall. ⭐ Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War (1999) is the long version with the archives in it.
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cockcroft · artforum · 1974 · cia · cold war · abstract expressionism · saunders · critique
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