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Wow.  I think that's the first Rothko I've ever seen that I kind of liked...

Nevermind.  I don't like it.  

But the CCF!  How have I never heard of this?  Wow.  Just wow.  I mean I knew about rooting out commies, but I didn't know there was a real aesthetic counterpart to Stalin's Socialist Realism!  Wow.  Damn.  Is Mary arround?  We both attended an exhibit about Abstract Epressionism this winter, and maybe I was more interested in the art than the texts, but I don't remember anything about it being a CIA-funded anti-commie movement!

Today, records of the International Association for Cultural Freedom and its predecessor the Congress for Cultural Freedom are stored at the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago's Library.

Well, that's rather convenient...

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Tue May 19th, 2009 at 01:10:43 PM EST
Well that's American freedom for you :-) - some censorship, but the most effective is the self-censorship of the academics and critics who just decided NOT to look into this. It's not so hard to find out about it, IF you already have some clue about it and if you have the desire to know about stuff that isn't necessarily going to do your career any good.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Tue May 19th, 2009 at 06:12:12 PM EST
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