http://joseelretardo.com/uncategorized/crapping-on-what-you-love-continued-modern-art-specifically-jackson-pollock/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Vague Ruminations From a Master Time-Waster Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://joseelretardo.com/uncategorized/crapping-on-what-you-love-continued-modern-art-specifically-jackson-pollock/comment-page-1/#comment-3529 neil Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:47:35 +0000 http://joseelretardo.com/the-soapbox/crapping-on-what-you-love-continued-modern-art-specifically-jackson-pollock/#comment-3529 Frances Stoner Saunders wrote a book entitled THE CULTURAL COLD WAR: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. (the New Press) (British title: Who Paid the Piper?) Saunders points out that the Central Intelligence Agency organized and assured the success of the American abstract expressionist movement, using artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, etc., as weapons in the struggle against the Soviet Union. Frances Stoner Saunders wrote a book entitled THE CULTURAL COLD WAR: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. (the New Press) (British title: Who Paid the Piper?) Saunders points out that the Central Intelligence Agency organized and assured the success of the American abstract expressionist movement, using artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, etc., as weapons in the struggle against the Soviet Union.

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