Making Art Panamerican : Cultural Policy and the Cold War /

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Among the buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., only the Pan American Union (PAU) houses an international organization. The first of many anticipated "peace palaces"constructed in the early twentieth century, the PAU began with a mission of cultural diplomacy, and after World...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fox, Claire F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Pan American Union. > Division of Visual Arts.
Pan American Union. > Division of Visual Arts
1900-1999
Art and state > America > History > 20th century.
Art > Politique gouvernementale > Amérique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ART > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Art and state
America
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The long twentieth-century quest for Panamerica
  • Introduction: The Pan American Union Visual Arts Programs and Latin American art
  • Art enters the union : the transition from World War II to the Cold War
  • El Arte Que Progresa : modernization, nodern art, and continental consciousness
  • José Luis Cuevas, Panamerican celebrity
  • The last party : HemisFair '68
  • Afterword: The afterlife of the Pan American Union Visual Arts Programs.

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