title: A Causal Analysis of the Promotion of Abstract Expressionism: On the Foreign Policy of the United States
abstract: It is well known that during the Cold War the United States focused on the promotion of Abstract Expressionism and regarded it as a powerful weapon for the improvement of its cultural status and capacity to compete with the USSR. An analysis of this phenomenon – its causes, characteristics, and effects – would be incomplete without studying the foreign policy efforts of that time and the special traits of Abstract Expressionism’s artistic influence. It can be concluded that the rise of Abstract 
journal: European Journal of Fine and Visual Arts