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  • This book talks about it thoroughly.

    Basically, the CIA secretly funded and promoted Abstract Expressionism during the Cold War as a cultural weapon against the Soviet Union. This program, active primarily from the 1950s to 1967, aimed to showcase American intellectual and creative freedom in contrast to the Socialist Realism mandated by the USSR.

    They used the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) and front organizations like the Farfield Foundation to fund exhibitions and magazines, maintaining a “long leash” distance to keep artists unaware of the government backing.

    The agency sponsored major touring exhibitions, such as “The New American Painting” (1958–1959), which toured Europe to establish New York as the center of the modern art world and delegitimize Soviet cultural dominance.

    Prominent figures like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell benefited from this support.

    Liberals, to this day, cope after the evidence of these activities came to light because they made fun of the Communists of making up ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘pop-history’ for a long time.