Cafe CIA Roma: Mary McCarthy's Cold War

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A portrayal is presented of the American intellectual Left of the 1940s and 1950s, focusing on author Mary McCarthy. It is posited that despite McCarthy's liberal leanings, the social circles she moved in were largely those informed and/or influenced by the Central Intelligence Agency, which indirectly governed US liberal thought during that era.

Behavior, Influence, Portrayals, Intellectuals, Women writers, Women authors, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War, 1945-1991, McCarthy, Mary

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Chinese painting and cultural interpretation: Chiang Yee's travel writing during the Cold War era

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Artist and author Chiang Yee introduced the East to the West through painting and writing between the 1940s and 1960s, a time when many Americans regarded China as irrational and fanatical. Chiang was able to resist and transcend Cold War rhetoric by using art for mutual exchange between the US and China.

Criticism and interpretation, Critical Essay, Chinese art, Art, Chinese, Yee, Chiang

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No room of one's own: Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low, Berthe Morisot, and The Awakening

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Griselda Pollock and Robert Herbert studied the women impressionists to reveal the role of modern feminism. The approaches of Pollock and Herbert are explained through critical and aesthetic value to the paintings of women impressionists in their analysis.

Science & research, Research, Feminism, Impressionist artists, Pollock, Griselda, Visvakarma

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