[silence] (OT) BBC Radio - The CIA and the Avant Garde

[Kraig Grady]

I find the subject interesting cause i had thought this the case once we 
saw the powers to be, especially in the US basically proclaim war on the 
arts.
(after the collapse of the soviet union)
I had been saying for years what this program now saying.
 I  think it is time to come to terms that this is exactly what the 
government has done.
making it an economic sacrifice

John Whiting wrote:
> A fascinating program! As someone who did sound projection and occasionally lectured 
> there for a dozen years, I found it informative and evocative but not surprising, 
> even though I knew nothing of the CIA's fine Italian hand in its early history. It 
> ties in neatly of course with their support of the English literary magazine 
> Encounter (which collapsed when its cover was blown) and also the unlikely elevation 
> from obscurity to notoriety of the intransigent artist Jackson Pollack. The reason 
> for their support of the avant-garde (at least at the higher, less intellectual 
> levels of authority) appears to have been simply the fact that both Hitler and Stalin 
> had opposed it.
>
> In retrospect, it's nothing to get worked up about. If the source of artists' support 
> were to invalidate their aesthetic, we would have to scrap every bit of Renaissance 
> art financed by the Borgias. I like the Salvation Army's attitude towards tainted 
> money: "The Lord sent it even if the devil did bring it."
>
> There was a fascinating BBC TV documentary about the CIA's involvement in the support 
> of B.F. Skinner and behaviorist psychology, which was regarded as both an antidote to 
> and an elaboration of what was believed to be an insidious Soviet brainwashing 
> technique. It's the murky world of "The Manchurian Candidate".
>
> John Whiting
>
> STRANGE FRUIT  The oil was from Marjeyoun, in the ancient olive growing region of 
> southern Lebanon; the wine, from the legendary Chateau Musar east of Beirut. Olives 
> and grapes, the fruits of peace and conviviality, paradoxically exported from a 
> war-ravaged country. http://www.whitings-writings.com/diatribes/strange_fruit.htm
>
>
>
> Matt Rogalsky wrote:
>   
>> just remove the extra parenthesis from that URL and it works:
>>
>> www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/musicfeature/pip/etlar/
>>
>> best,
>> matt
>>
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>> On 27 Sep 2006, at 10:30, John Whiting wrote:
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>>     
>>> The link doesn't work and neither the program nor its participanys 
>>> show up on a BBC
>>> search. Can you tell us anything more?
>>>
>>> John Whiting
>>>       
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