Bibliograph

The free world, art and thought in the Cold War, Louis Menand

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The free world, art and thought in the Cold War, Louis Menand

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-813) and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The free world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1153449604

Responsibility statement

Louis Menand

Sub title

art and thought in the Cold War

Summary

"A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"--, Provided by publisherMenand analyzes the economic, demographic, and technological forces that drove social and cultural change in US during the twenty years following the end of the Second World War. Introducing us to the personalities at the center of this transformation-- artists and thinkers both in the US and abroad-- he shows how they exerted a powerful influence on postwar art and thought. It was an exciting period of creative innovation and intellectual debate, and it gave birth to the United States we know today. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction: What the Cold War meant -- An empty sky -- The object of power -- Freedom and nothingness -- Outside the law -- The ice breakers -- The best minds -- The human science -- The emancipation of dissonance -- Northern songs -- Concepts of liberty -- Children of a storm -- Consumer sovereignty -- The free play of the mind -- Commonism -- Vers la libération -- Freedom is the fire -- Hollywood- Paris- Hollywood --- This is the end

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Art and thought in the Cold War

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