The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world. But were they pawns of US spies in the Cold War?
So that’s why it was banned in the ussr, and not because Khrushchev thought it was stupid shit that “working class man” wouldn’t understand and therefore a waste of government funds?
So that’s why it was banned in the ussr, and not because Khrushchev thought it was stupid shit that “working class man” wouldn’t understand and therefore a waste of government funds?
Other way around.
The CIA saw that the Soviets hated it, and decided that this was a great way to differentiate the US from the repressive Communists.