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The Democratic Surround (Paperback)
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We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of
creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the
social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War
years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the
decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts
also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic,
open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new,
flexible models of social order. Surprisingly, he shows that it was
this turn that brought us the revolutionary multimedia and
wild-eyed individualism of the 1960s counterculture. In this
prequel to his celebrated book From Counterculture to Cyberculture,
Turner rewrites the history of postwar America, showing how in the
1940s and '50s American liberalism offered a far more radical
social vision than we now remember. Turner tracks the influential
mid-century entwining of Bauhaus aesthetics with American social
science and psychology. From the Museum of Modern Art in New York
to the New Bauhaus in Chicago and Black Mountain College in North
Carolina, Turner shows how some of the most well-known artists and
intellectuals of the forties developed new models of media, new
theories of interpersonal and international collaboration, and new
visions of an open, tolerant, and democratic self in direct
contrast to the repression and conformity associated with the
fascist and communist movements. He then shows how their work
shaped some of the most significant media events of the Cold War,
including Edward Steichen's Family of Man exhibition, the
multimedia performances of John Cage, and, ultimately, the
psychedelic Be-Ins of the sixties. Turner demonstrates that by the
end of the 1950s this vision of the democratic self and the media
built to promote it would actually become part of the mainstream,
even shaping American propaganda efforts in Europe. Overturning
common misconceptions of these transformational years, The
Democratic Surround shows just how much the artistic and social
radicalism of the sixties owed to the liberal ideals of Cold War
America, a democratic vision that still underlies our hopes for
digital media today.
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