Entangled East and West: Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction During the Cold War

De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019.

Under the general editorship: S. Mikkonen, J. Parkkinen, G. Scott-Smith

Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions, missing the important role played by individuals and organizations all over Europe during the Cold War years.
This volume focuses on cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. It aims at providing an essentially European point of view on the cultural Cold War, providing fresh insight into little known connections and cooperation in different artistic fields. Chapters of the volume address photography and architecture, popular as well as classical music, theatre and film, and fine arts. By examining different actors ranging from individuals to organizations such as universities, the volume brings new perspective on the mechanisms and workings of the cultural Cold War. Finally, the volume estimates the pertinence of the Cold War and its influence in post-1991 world.
The volume offers an overview on the role culture played in international politics, as well as its role in the Cold War more generally, through interesting examples and case studies

Chapters

“The collective approach does not abolish the individual”. The links between Soviet avant-garde experiments and architectural practice in the Netherlands during the first half of the twentieth century

Malich K., , in: Entangled East and West: Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction During the Cold War.: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019. Ch. 2 P. 39–65.

The first steps of the European International Style in architecture coincided with the time of extraordinary changes in Russian culture, caused by Revolution of 1917. In the 1920s, though for a very short period, Russian constructivists had the opportunity to implement their most progressive ideas on a large scale.It is not surprising that the radical changes ...

Added: September 7, 2019

Keywords: международные отношения, холодная война, history of architecture, история архитектуры, cultural diplomacy, Soviet cultural diplomacy, International Relations, Cold War Art History, История Холодной войны