The dancer defects

The struggle for cultural supremacy during the Cold War

Datos Bibliográficos

ID24200453
AutoresDavid Caute
Año2003
Páginas788
Fecha de publicación2003-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
Reseñado porThe Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War, Helena Goscilo, 2007
RevistaThe dancer defects (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
Open LibraryOL3324760M
ISBN9780199249084
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas61

The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war staged in the city of Berlin. Using sources in four languages, Caute explores the cultural Cold War as it rapidly penetrated theatre, film, classical music, popular music, ballet, painting and sculpture, as well as propaganda by exhibition. Artists such as Miller, Picasso, Eisenstein, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky became involved in this fierce cultural competition through which each of the major Cold War protagonists sought to establish their supremacy. Caute challenges some recent, one-dimensional, American accounts of 'Cold War culture', which ignore not only the Soviet performance but virtually any cultural activity outside the USA. The West presented its cultural avant-garde as evidence of liberty, even through monochrome canvases and dodecaphonic music appealed only to a minority audience. Soviet artistic standards and teaching levels were exceptionally high, but the fear of freedom and innovation virtually guaranteed the moral defeat which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.

1958 · 20th century · Art · Arts · Cold war · Cultural Policy · Cultural relations · Europe · France · History · Intellectual life · Kulturpolitik · Ost-West-Konflikt · Political aspects · Politics and culture · politics and government · Popular Culture · Radicalism · Social aspects · Social aspects of Cold War · Soviet Union · united states · Var

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