Short answer: no, but a great clickbait title. Long answer: it’s possible that the CIA promoted abstract expressionism as an expression of soft power, meant to contrast the individualism of American artists with the realism of Soviet-approved art.
Either way, I’m thinking that those philosophers of art who attempt to define art really err when they failed to include “sponsored by the CIA” as one of their criteria…
December 4, 2017 at 9:22 pm
Hmm. A reverse-Folk Soda.
I imagine that an enterprising scholar could perhaps shed some additional light by combing through Greenberg and Rosenberg’s tax filings…
August 30, 2019 at 4:21 pm
CLICKBAIT YOURE TRASH STOP AND GET SOME HELP YOUR NOT MY DAD BUT IS YOUR NAME BRITNEY OR PATRICIA?
August 30, 2019 at 4:22 pm
poop on the table