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Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI 1920-1950

By Claire A. Culleton , Karen Leick

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0230601359, 9780230601352, 9780230610392
Open Library ID
OL10194762M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2259524 bytes)
Pages
280\278
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. From Harlem to Hollywood, Hoover and his bureau workers were bent on decontaminating America’s creativity and this collection looks at the writers and artists who were tagged, tracked, and in some cases, trapped by the FBI. Contributors detail the threatening aspects of political power and critique the very historiography of modernism, acknowledging that modernism was on trial during those years.

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