see also: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/CIAcultCW.html
&& http://nictoglobe.com/new/query2.html?d=articles&f=finality A. Sent from my eXtended BodY On 27 dec. 2011, at 14:28, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Modern art was CIA 'weapon' > > Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and > de Kooning in a cultural Cold War. > > For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it > is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American > modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, > Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in > the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it > acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract > Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years. > > The connection is improbable. This was a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, > when the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern > art - President Truman summed up the popular view when he said: "If > that's art, then I'm a Hottentot." As for the artists themselves, many > were ex- com- munists barely acceptable in the America of the > McCarthyite era, and certainly not the sort of people normally likely to > receive US government backing. > > more... > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
