Capt Bringdown
02-21-2013, 07:13 AM
The CIA funded abstract art during the Cold War (http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-cia-funded-abstract-art-during-cold.html)
Former CIA agents have admitted what investigators have long suspected: that the US Government used taxpayer money to promote abstract painting as a propaganda weapon during the Cold War. During the 1950s and '60s, the same period when the USA was building up its arsenal of nukes, it decided to use art against the Soviets to proclaim American cultural superiority.
Millions of dollars were channeled through fake foundations and intermediate organizations with names like the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the International Organizations Division (IOD), and the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organizations.
According to former case officer Donald Jameson, these organizations enlisted sympathetic critics, collectors, curators, and museums—most notably Rockefeller's Museum of Modern Art—and swore them to secrecy. The artists themselves were unaware of the source of the the support. The fact that the US was using covert means to promote the ideals of cultural openness was an irony lost on the planners.
--- more --->> (http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-cia-funded-abstract-art-during-cold.html)
http://no-onions-extra-pickles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Abstract-Expressionism-Painting.jpg
Former CIA agents have admitted what investigators have long suspected: that the US Government used taxpayer money to promote abstract painting as a propaganda weapon during the Cold War. During the 1950s and '60s, the same period when the USA was building up its arsenal of nukes, it decided to use art against the Soviets to proclaim American cultural superiority.
Millions of dollars were channeled through fake foundations and intermediate organizations with names like the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the International Organizations Division (IOD), and the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organizations.
According to former case officer Donald Jameson, these organizations enlisted sympathetic critics, collectors, curators, and museums—most notably Rockefeller's Museum of Modern Art—and swore them to secrecy. The artists themselves were unaware of the source of the the support. The fact that the US was using covert means to promote the ideals of cultural openness was an irony lost on the planners.
--- more --->> (http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-cia-funded-abstract-art-during-cold.html)
http://no-onions-extra-pickles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Abstract-Expressionism-Painting.jpg