Exhibiting the Foreign on U.S. Soil

Kathleen Berrin

doi:10.5771/9781538134092

Zusammenfassung

The uneasy relationship between the arts, US art museums, and the federal government has not been thoroughly explored by scholars. This book focuses on the development of “national diplomacy exhibitions” during World War II and the early Cold War and explains how the War provided the government with an impetus to create a national arts policy. It discusses how national diplomacy exhibitions on US soil were deployed as persuasive tools to influence public opinion, to reconcile discrepancies between high art and democracy, and to resolve America’s lagging art status and difficulties with “the foreign.” The type of soft diplomacy that art museums provide by initiating national diplomacy exhibitions has not received emphasis in the scholarly community and art museums have essentially been ignored in cultural studies of the early Cold War.

Scholarly analysis of museum exhibitions in the last quarter of the 20th century is now a popular topic, but investigations of exhibitions between 1939-1960 have been thin. By scrutinizing major exhibitions during those formative years this book takes a new perspective and examines the foundational development of the so-called “blockbuster” exhibition stimulated by World War II.

The book will interest readers in visual studies, history, museums, cultural affairs, government, and international diplomacy.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-3408-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-3409-2
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 368
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Preface Kein Zugriff
2. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
1. Chapter One America’s Lagging Reputation in the Arts and Development of Its Art Museums Kein Zugriff
2. Chapter Two A Modern Identity for America The First Ten Years of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1929–1939) Kein Zugriff
3. Chapter Three Old World Traditions and Excellence The Wartime Origins of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1925–1945) Kein Zugriff
1. Chapter Four Enlisting the Arts War-Themed Exhibitions at NGA and MoMA Kein Zugriff
2. Chapter Five Art in the Service of Persuasion Nelson Rockefeller and the Office for Inter-American Affairs Exhibitions Kein Zugriff
3. Chapter Six Projecting Influence Abroad The Second Roberts Commission and the Officers of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program Kein Zugriff
1. Chapter Seven Shifting Relations Federal Government and Art Museums in the Early Cold War (1945–1955) Kein Zugriff
2. Chapter Eight Foreign Diplomacy Exhibitions on U.S. Soil (1947–1977) Kein Zugriff
3. Chapter Nine Displaying the Other Personal Experiences Exhibiting Non-Western Arts (1970–2010) Kein Zugriff
4. Conclusion Perspectives on the Future Kein Zugriff
Appendix I: NGA War-Themed Exhibitions 1941–1945 Kein Zugriff Seiten 325 - 326
Appendix II: MoMA War-Themed Exhibitions 1941–1945 Kein Zugriff Seiten 327 - 328
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 329 - 348
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 349 - 366
About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 367 - 368