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Think Tank Aesthetics - Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (Hardcover)
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Think Tank Aesthetics - Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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How the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems
theory, operational research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a
peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics,
Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think
tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and
methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operations
research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a peculiar genre of
midcentury modernism and set the terms for contemporary
neoliberalism. Lee casts these shadowy institutions as sites of
radical creativity and interdisciplinary practice in the service of
defense strategy. Describing the distinctive aesthetics that
emerged from such institutions as the RAND Corporation, she maps
the multiple and overlapping networks that connected nuclear
strategists, mathematicians, economists, anthropologists, artists,
designers, and art historians. Lee recounts, among other things,
the decades-long colloquy between Albert Wohlstetter, a RAND
analyst, and his former professor, the famous art historian Meyer
Schapiro; the anthropologist Margaret Mead's deployment of
innovative visual aids that recall midcentury abstract art; and the
combination of cybernetics and modernist design in an "Opsroom" for
the short-lived socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1970s
Chile (and its restaging many years later as a work of art). Lee
suggests that we think of these connections less as disciplinary
border crossings than as colonization of the specific interests of
arts by the approaches and methods of the sciences. Hearing the
echoes of think tank aesthetics in today's pursuit of the
interdisciplinary and in academia's science-infused justification
of the humanities, Lee wonders what territory has been ceded in a
laboratory approach to the arts.
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