Parapolitics Cultural Freedom and the Cold War by Edited by Anselm Franke & Edited by Nida Ghouse & Edited by Paz Guevara & Edited by Antonia Majaca

Sternberg Press
Parapolitics Cultural Freedom and the Cold War by Edited by Anselm Franke & Edited by Nida Ghouse & Edited by Paz Guevara & Edited by Antonia Majaca
Parapolitics Cultural Freedom and the Cold War by Edited by Anselm Franke & Edited by Nida Ghouse & Edited by Paz Guevara & Edited by Antonia Majaca

An examination of the use of modernism in the twentiethcentury battle for US hegemony through the activities of the CIAfunded Congress for Cultural Freedom. Parapolitics confronts the contemporary fate of intellectual autonomy and artistic freedom by revisiting the use of modernism in the twentiethcentury battle for US hegemony. It builds on a major exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt 201718 that took as its starting point the Congress for Cultural Freedom CCFan organization covertly