How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War.

Lassalle, Hélène; Guilbaut, Serge; Goldhammer, Arthur

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“…Architects, urban planners, and activists co-designed playgrounds as new sites of experimentation. Meanwhile, the playful aesthetics of Abstract Expressionist art became ideologically linked with notions of Western freedom and unbridled creative expression, values presented as in direct contrast to totalitarian rule of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party (Guilbaut, 1983). Creativity and play operated as indexical markers of democratic liberalism over communist repression (Ogata, 2013).…”

Section: Cold War Tensionsmentioning

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Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds

Davies,

2024

Space and Culture

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This article explores playgrounds in Hong Kong over a century and a half of the city’s history. Drawing on media publications, governmental resources, and past and present accounts of the history of the city, we document how the planning, design, and construction of playgrounds in Hong Kong have been fundamentally influenced by political, bureaucratic, and pedagogical practices, as well as by the class, ethnic, and cultural composition of the city. We sketch the broader political shifts in Hong Kong’s evolution under British and more recently Chinese rule bringing specific attention to how these forces have shaped spaces of play in the city. Through this text, we use playgrounds as a lens through which to explore Hong Kong’s past, politics, and urban space, as well as its cultural and socio-political consciousness.

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Section: Cold War Tensionsmentioning

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Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds

Davies,

2024

Space and Culture

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“…But it was in the 1980s that New York emerged as the world's leading center for buying and selling artwork. 74 The art market grew in parallel with the rise of finance and served as an outlet for the excess capital generated on Wall Street. One reason for finance professionals' embrace of art was a growing belief that art was a good investment.…”

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The Cultural Center of the World: Art, Finance, and Globalization in Late Twentieth-Century New York

Miller-Davenport

2022

Journal of Urban History

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This article explores why New York City’s municipal government, together with private benefactors, poured an unprecedented amount of money into the arts during the 1980s, a time of broader austerity. While other public expenditures saw dramatic cuts, the arts were considered essential to the city’s future as a center for global capital—as a way to lure financial elites and young professionals to the city, create new forms of revenue-raising consumption, and cement New York’s reputation as the ultimate global city. New York had always had a vital arts scene. But in the 1980s, the arts were monetized in new ways to serve capital—and capitalists. Arts and culture were central to the new urban lifestyle that helped produce the explosion of global finance. But as arts and culture increasingly came to be associated with a luxury lifestyle, the arts themselves became a luxury, inaccessible to most New Yorkers.

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“…The show communism" famous), but under his administration the United States Information Service and the Museum of Modern Art, as early as 1947, began to promote avant-garde art. (Guilbaut 1985: 4) 6 The Soviets had little use for abstraction by mid-century, as they favoured Socialist Realism: Stalin's official art. 7 Entartete Kunst was, interestingly, one of the most widely attended art exhibitions in German history.…”

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Modernity without a Project

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2015

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How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War.

Cited by 12 publications

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Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds

Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds

The Cultural Center of the World: Art, Finance, and Globalization in Late Twentieth-Century New York

Modernity without a Project

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