Jane Pavitt: Fear and Fashion in the Cold War (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, cold war, cybernetics, fashion, military, politics
From Barbarella’s bikini to vinyl radiation suits to high-tech jewelry, the Cold War’s impact on fashion was unmistakable.
Atomic anxieties, the space race, technological developments, and the first forays into “super-reality” led to innovations in materials, the cybernetic visions of the 1960s, and a range of surprising responses from artists, filmmakers, scientists, and designers. With a stunning selection of images, including photographs by fashion luminaries such as John French, Fear and Fashion in the Cold War explores how the image of the body was shaped by Cold War concerns between 1945 and 1970. In this engaging book, Jane Pavitt incorporates military, political, and scientific research in an engrossing discussion of how countercultural theories and experiences in the later 1960s shaped an alternative view of the “Cold War Body.”
Publisher V&A, London, 2008
ISBN 1851775447, 9781851775446
128 pages
via Royal College of Art
Susan Buck-Morss: The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and The Frankfurt Institute (1977-) [English, Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, aesthetics, art, biography, critical theory, dialectic, Frankfurt school, history, literary criticism, logic, marxism, music, negative dialectics, philosophy, theory, truth
Publisher The Free Press, a division of Macmillan Publishing, New York, 1977
ISBN 0029049105
352 pages
review (Gillian Rose, History and Theory)
google books (EN)
Susan Buck-Morss at Monoskop wiki
The Origin of Negative Dialectics (English, 1977)
Origen de la dialéctica negativa (Spanish, trans. Nora Rabotnikof Maskivker, 1981, no OCR)
Frances Stonor Saunders: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, art, cia, cold war, intelligence agency, politics
In addition to being short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award upon publication last year, Frances Stonor Saunders’s The Cultural Cold War was met with the kind of attention reserved for books that directly hit a cultural nerve. Impassioned reviews and features in major publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have consistently praised Saunders’s detailed knowledge of the CIA’s covert operations.
The Cultural Cold War presents for the first time shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War. This “impressively detailed” (Kirkus Reviews) book draws together newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign wherein some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom became instruments of the American government. Those involved included George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Gloria Steinem.
Originally published in UK as Who Paid the Piper? by Granta Publications, 1999
Publisher The New Press, New York, 2000
ISBN 156584596X
509 pages
PDF (18 MB, updated on 2014-9-14)
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