How Does the Arts During the Cold War Reflect the Ideologies of the Two Superpowers?
Authors
Lily Wang
Whittle School & Studio Shenzhen Campus, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518066, China
*Corresponding Author. Email: lwang1@whittleschool.org
Corresponding Author
Lily Wang
Available Online 28 January 2022.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.059How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Cold War; Art; Clashing Ideology
- Abstract
The Cold War is a significant point of modern history which put the whole world into tensions and crises; therefore, it resulted in non-eligible influences on people’s lifestyles and, thus, caused changes in the expression of art during that time. This paper aims to explore some of the major influences of two main ideologies (communism and capitalism) on artists’ choice of topic and techniques in terms of expressing their political position and opinions. In this paper, there are brief analyses of some sample art genres that were popular during the Cold War, like Pop Art, abstract Expression, Socialist Realism, and Sots Art; overall, they present art’s functions and essences in a war of clashing ideology.
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Lily Wang PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/28 TI - How Does the Arts During the Cold War Reflect the Ideologies of the Two Superpowers? BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 301 EP - 305 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.059 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.059 ID - Wang2022 ER -