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The Hemispheric Routes of “El Nuevo Arte Nuestro”: The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy, and the Cold War
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The Hemispheric Routes of “El Nuevo Arte Nuestro”: The Pan American Union, Cultural Policy, and the Cold War

CLAIRE F. Fox
Hemispheric American Studies, pp.223-248
Rutgers University Press
10/04/2007
DOI: 10.36019/9780813543871-013

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Abstract

In 1948 the Organization of American States (OAS) became the supreme governmental body of the inter-American system, while the name of its predecessor organization, the Pan American Union (PAU), continued to refer to the Organization’s General Secretariat in Washington, D.C. Undergirded by two farreaching hemispheric security treaties, the Organization envisioned a cultural arm to round out its hemispheric profile, and in this regard, a relatively small office at the Pan American Union known as the Visual Arts Division emerged to play a singular role among U.S.-based arts institutions in the two decades following World War II. Previously, during the Good
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