In this readable and highly original book, John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination

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An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agen

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 1