TY - BOOK ID - 77865193 TI - Fall-out shelters for the human spirit : American art and the Cold War PY - 2005 SN - 0807876410 9780807876411 9798890877192 PB - Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Art and state KW - Art, American KW - Cold War. KW - Propaganda in art. KW - World politics KW - Art, Modern KW - Chicago Imagists (Group of artists) KW - Figuration libre (Group of artists) KW - Fort Worth Circle (Group of artists) KW - Hairy Who (Group of artists) KW - Monster Roster (Group of artists) KW - Philadelphia Ten (Group of artists) KW - Pictures Generation (Group of artists) KW - United States KW - Cultural policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865193 AB - During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in America's battle against communism. Part of that effort in cultural diplomacy included a program to arrange the exhibition of hundreds of American paintings overseas. Michael L. Krenn studies the successes, failures, contradictions, and controversies that arose when the U.S. government and the American art world sought to work together to make an international art program a reality between the 1940s and the 1970s. The Department of State, then the United States Information Agency, and eventually the Smithsonian Institution directed ER -