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2010 | Color | 72 min

Using archival images, this film captures the history of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, and more generally, the arrival of modern art in the United States in the context of the Cold War. This compilation film about the ideological influence of the movement constitutes a critical view of the intersection of art and poiltics during the McCarthy era.


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Lerner; Jesse
Script: Lerner; Jesse
Production: Lerner; Jesse
Sound: Harris; Sara
Cast:Stalin; Joseph, Hart Benton; Thomas, Mccarthy; Joseph, D Eisenhower; Dwight, Newman; Barnett, A. Siqueiros; David, Noguchi; Isamu, Duchamp; Marcel
Participation year at FICM: 2010

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