Don't Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture

Author:   Catherine Gunther Kodat
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9780813565262


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 December 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Catherine Gunther Kodat
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780813565262


ISBN 10:   081356526
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Part I          Rethinking Cold War Culture 1          Combat Cultural 2          History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA) 3          Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality) 4          Dancing: “Don’t Act, Just Dance” Part II         Rereading Cold War Culture 5          Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, “Persia” 6          Spartacus 7          From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in China Notes Bibliography Index

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This book is a tour de force, a grand jetE, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture. --Virginia Jackson University of California-Irvine (03/12/2014)


This book is a tour de force, a grand jete, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture. --Virginia Jackson University of California-Irvine (03/12/2014)


This book is a tour de force , a grand jete , a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture. --Virginia Jackson University of California-Irvine (03/12/2014)


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CATHERINE GUNTHER KODAT is the dean of the Division of Liberal Arts and a professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. 

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