Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Franke, Anselm
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution, issuing body.

Description

615 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 30 cm

Alternative Title

Cultural freedom and the Cold War

Subjects

• Art > Political aspects
• Cultural diplomacy
• Art, Modern
• History
• Exhibition catalogs
• 1900-1999
• Cold War > (1945-1989)
• Art and war
• Congress for Cultural Freedom
• Art > Political aspects > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Congress for Cultural Freedom Exhibitions
• Cultural diplomacy > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Cold War in art > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 600-603).

Exhibitions (note)

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

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. 10 -- 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.

Call Number

JQF 22-685

ISBN

• 9783956795084
• 3956795083

LCCN

9783956795084

OCLC

1253283881

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 600-603).

Exhibitions

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

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Franke, Anselm, editor.

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

Other Standard Identifier

9783956795084

Research Call Number

JQF 22-685