Parapolitics : cultural freedom and the Cold War / edited by Anselm Franke [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franke, Anselm, editor.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Cold War in art--Exhibitions.

Cold War in art.

Cultural diplomacy--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Cultural diplomacy.

Congress for Cultural Freedom--Exhibitions.

Art--Political aspects--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art.

Art and war.

Art--Political aspects.

History.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

615 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Cultural freedom and the Cold War

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Haus der Kulturen der Welt ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2021]

Contents:

Foreword / Bernd Scherer

Introduction / Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, Antonia Majaca

A Chronological List of the Activities of the CCFand IACF

A World Frozen in Art / Anselm Franke

Gentlemen & Arseholes / Lene Berg

Charged Objects of Former Reverence / Nida Ghouse

Abstraction / Iman Issa

Two Concepts of White Sovereignty / Barnor Hesse

Round Heaven, Square Earth / Michael Baers

Edward Shils, "The End of Ideology?, " Encounter, vol. 4, no. 2 (1955), pp. 52-58

Odysseus of the Nimble Wits : The Spirits of Totalitarianism and the Cultural Cold War's Entscheidungsproblem / Antonia Majaca

M. R. Masani, "The Milan Conference -A Report, " Freedom First, no. 42 (November 1955), pp. 5-7

Der Monat / Michael Hochgeschwender

Quest / Chinmay Sharma

J. S. Saxena, "The Coffee-Brown Boy Looks at the Black Boy, " Quest, no. 65 (April/June 1970), pp. 60-67 Sasangge and the Paradox of the Freedom Discourse in the Korean Peninsula / Hyunjin Kim

Neutrality, a Battlefield of Minds : The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Scandinavia / Rhea Dall

Dwight Macdonald, "America! America!, " Dissent (1958), pp. 313-23

The Power of Interpretation : How MoMA Explained Guernica to Its Audience / Andrea Giunta

Much Ado about a Drawing / Lene Berg

The (Re)Invention of Postwar Modernism / Porter McCray

Yugoslav Fanonism and a Failed Exit from the (Cultural) Cold War / Ivana Bago

Exhibition as Medium for Geopolitical Operations : Digging Up the Exhibitions of the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Paz Guevara

Four Saints in Three Acts : A Case Study / Jenifer Evans

The Living Arts of Ancient TV : India and the Idiot Box, 1955 / Alexander Keefe

FSMR : New Temples of New Sound / Yashas Shetty

Clement Greenberg in India : A Recursive History / Karin Zitzewitz The Man in the Background / Lene Berg

The Symbolic Form of the File : An Intense Undercover Activity Intended to Change the Course of History / Voluspa Jarpa

Neoliberal Economics and the Double Disfigurement of the Third World / Quinn Slobodian

The Sound of The Closing Door Erhard Schüttpelz talks to Nida Ghouse

Purity of Art and the Racial Politics of Modernism / Christian Kravagna

Parallel Lines and Crosshatchings : The Souza-esque Art of Delineating Duplicity / Savita Apte

The Story of Hiwar : Cold War Imbroglio and the Struggle for Autonomy / Rasha Salti

The Transitional Coalition : Reciprocal Readings of Transition and the Congress for Cultural Freedom between 1962 and 1967 / Kodwo Eshun

A Refusal to Be Transcribed : "Africa will be free before we have even managed to get ourselves a lousy cup of coffee" / Stacy Hardy

Wole Soyinka, "Telephone Conversation, " The New African, August 1962, p. 1

Letter to the Editor : How to Address the Scope of Liberal Positions with and within the South African Magazines? / Annett Busch

Ayi Kwei Armah, "Contact, " The New African, vol. 4, no. 10 (1965), pp. 244-48

Untogether Together : Bessie Head's Writing in The New African / Gobi Ngcobo

What Would Tutuola Do? / Emmanuel Iduma

Ulli Beier, Cultural Brokerage, and Cold War Parapolitics / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie

Ezekiel Mphahlele, "Mbari-First Anniversary, " The New African, vol. 1, no. 8 (1962), p. 7

Ulli Beier, "Ibrahim Salahi, " Black Orpheus, no. 10 (n. d.), pp. 48-50

Signifying Deceit : Richard Wright's Anti-Colonial-Anti-Capitalist-Anti-Communism / Kodwo Eshun

James Baldwin, "Princes and Powers, " Encounter, vol. 8, no. 1 (1957), pp. 52-60

Appendix

References

Artworks in the Exhibition

Image Credits

Acknowledgments

Colophon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 600-603).

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, November 3, 2017 - January 8, 2018.

ISBN:

9783956795084

3956795083

OCLC:

1253283881

Publisher Number:

9783956795084