RE: Odd footnote to Art & Politics

["Bruce Burleson" <burleson@xxxxxxxx>]

I am crazy for the work of H.R. Giger;
am curious as to what fellow Marxists
think of his work

Bruce

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Subject: Odd footnote to Art & Politics


Glancing through my younger son's lectures notes for his Art in Asia unit I
was struck by a footnote on Art in Indonesia.  After the bloody 1966
military coup, it seems that the Suharto Govt began to sponsor a particular
form of art.  Guess which?

Why our old friend Abstract Expressionism of course.

I was astonished to learn this.  What role I wonder did the CIA play in
this choice of art?  Who dictated this re-run of the Schlesinger-Greenberg
move in  America in the 1940s?


Now there's a worthy PhD topic.

regards

Gary