The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War Horowitz Joseph
The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War Horowitz Joseph The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitalityEloquently extolled by President…
Specifikacia The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War Horowitz Joseph
The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War Horowitz Joseph
The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitalityEloquently extolled by President John F. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements within the Soviet Union--failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold War doctrine.Joseph Horowitz writes: "That so many fine minds could have cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual cost of the Cold War." He shows how the efforts of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom were distorted by an anti-totalitarian "psychology of exile" traceable to its secretary general, the displaced Russian aristocrat/composer Nicolas Nabokov, and to Nabokov's hero Igor Stravinsky. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War.
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