"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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"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.
Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | December 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | February 2008 |
Editors | C. Culleton, Karen Leick |
Dimensions | 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 269 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-60135-2 |
Barcode | 9780230601352 |
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LSN | 0-230-60135-9 |