The U.S. State, the Private Sector and Modern Art in South America 1940-1943

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dc.contributor.advisorGreet, Michele
dc.contributor.authorUlloa-Herrera, Olga
dc.creatorUlloa-Herrera, Olga
dc.date2014-05
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-23T19:32:30Z
dc.date.available2019-05-15T06:39:19Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-23
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the role of modern art as a strategic tool of national defense during an unprecedented moment in U.S. history in which the U.S. State and the private sector converged to develop an economic and cultural war preparedness program in South America. By taking modern art as a cultural object, this project studies the intersections of modernity, capitalism, power relations and culture by looking at the activities of the Art Section of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics (OCCCRBAR) and its successor the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CI-AA). The dissertation argues that the defense interventions of the United States in South America at this particular moment—with shifts in diplomacy, power, hegemony, and world order—laid out the foundation for a regionalization and industrial modernist infrastructure. As such, these interventions established early cultural flows and networks of commerce, transportation, communication for an American ideology, cultural industries and visual culture later to be fully realized with the expansion of the Americanization of culture in contemporary globalization.
dc.description.noteThis work was embargoed by the author and will not be available until May 2019.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/8948
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsCopyright 2014 Olga Ulloa-Herrera
dc.subjectGlobalization
dc.subjectModern Art
dc.subjectNational Defense
dc.titleThe U.S. State, the Private Sector and Modern Art in South America 1940-1943
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineCultural Studies
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePhD in Cultural Studies

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