A Causal Analysis of the Promotion of Abstract Expressionism: On the Foreign Policy of the United States
Journal: European Journal of Fine and Visual Arts
Year: 2023

It is well known that during the Cold War the United States focused on the promotion of Abstract Expressionism and regarded it as a powerful weapon for the improvement of its cultural status and capacity to compete with the USSR. An analysis of this phenomenon – its causes, characteristics, and effects – would be incomplete without studying the foreign policy efforts of that time and the special traits of Abstract Expressionism’s artistic influence. It can be concluded that the rise of Abstract