Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit
Title | Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Krenn |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2006-03-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0807876410 |
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 this effort, relying heavily on the assistance of major American art organizations, museums, curators, and artists. What the government hoped to accomplish and what the art community had in mind, however, were often at odds. Intense domestic controversies resulted, particularly when the effort involved modern or abstract expressionist art. Ultimately, the exhibition of American art overseas was one of the most controversial Cold War initiatives undertaken by the United States. Krenn's investigation deepens our understanding of the cultural dimensions of America's postwar diplomacy and explores how unexpected elements of the Cold War led to a redefinition of what is, and is not, "American."
Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit
Title | Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Krenn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
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Fallout Shelters and Human Behavior
Title | Fallout Shelters and Human Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | George W. Baker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Fallout shelters |
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Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters
Title | Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters PDF eBook |
Author | George W. Baker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Air raid shelters |
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Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters
Title | Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters PDF eBook |
Author | George Walter Baker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Nuclear bomb shelters |
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The Family Fallout Shelter
Title | The Family Fallout Shelter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Fallout shelters |
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"In an atomic war, blast, heat, and initial radiation could kill millions close to ground zero of nuclear bursts. Many more millions-everybody else-could be threatened by radioactive fallout. But most of these could be saved. The purpose of this booklet is to show how to escape death from fallout. Everyone, even those far from a likely target, would need shelter from fallout. Your Federal Government has a shelter policy based on the knowledge that most of those beyond the range of blast and heat will survive if they have adequate protection from fallout." -Author's description.
Fallout Shelters
Title | Fallout Shelters PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Office of Civil Defense |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Fallout shelters |
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