Conclusion: American Art as Cold War Legacy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. Abbreviations XI
5. Introduction: Art Canons and the Cold War 1
6. Part One: Painting by Marxism: American Art in Soviet Reflection
7. Chapter 1 The Ugly Shapes of American Modernism 31
8. Chapter 2 Laughing at the Unseen 49
9. Chapter 3 Andrei Chegodaev, American Realism, and Marxist Illusions 71
10. Chapter 4 At Home among Strangers: Rockwell Kent and Soviet Promotion of American Art 91
11. Part Two: Reconsidering Abstraction, or the Moderate Modernism of USIA Exhibitions
12. Chapter 5 Cold War Myths of Abstraction: A Critique of One Popular Idea 121
13. Chapter 6 Objectives and Subjectivities of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 135
14. Chapter 7 Graphic Arts: USA, 1963–1964: Ultimate Simulation 168
15. Conclusion: American Art as Cold War Legacy 195
16. Appendix: List of Major Exhibitions of American Visual Art in the Soviet Union from the Late 1920s to the Late 1960s 203
17. List of Figures 204
18. Selected Bibliography 208
19. Name Index 218