Ensemble: MONOCULTURE – Congress For Cultural Freedom
The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an organisation, founded in 1950 at a conference that gathered a group of anti-communist intellectuals in West Berlin. Organised in response to the formation of The World Peace Council by the Soviet Union, the CCF aimed to withstand post-war sympathies towards the USSR. Covertly funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it was established to oppose global Communism, counter Cold War neutralism, and to promote Western cultural and liberal values. The organisation was active in thirty-five countries, organising cultural events and conferences, publishing books and numerous periodicals. Another important vector of the campaign was aimed to alter the perception of the U.S. in Europe through the promotion of American modernist art. The covert enterprise dissolved in 1967, after the disclosure of the CIA’s active involvement.
Works
>Wissenschaft und Freiheit, 1945.Book, paper, ink.
>Laeeq and Zafar Futehall, "Achievements and Objectives of Free Societies", 1951.Leaflet, paper, ink.
>M.R. Masani, "Neutralism in India", 1951.Leaflet, paper, ink.
>Encounter (Vol. 1, no. 2, November 1953), 1953.Periodical, ink, paper.
>Encounter (Vol. 1, no. 1, October 1953), 1953.Periodical, paper, ink.
>Cultural Freedom in Asia. The proceedings of a conference held at Ragoon, Burma, on February 17-20, 1955, and convened by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Society for the Extension of Democratic Ideals, 1956.Leaflet, paper, ink.
>Censorship: a Quarterly Report on Censorship of Ideas and the Arts (no. 1, Autumn 1964), 1964.Periodical, paper, ink.
>Censorship: a Quarterly Report on Censorship of Ideas and the Arts (no. 1, Summer 1965), 1965.Periodical, ink, paper.
>Censorship: a Quarterly Report on Censorship of Ideas and the Arts (no. 2, Spring 1965), 1965.Leaflet, paper, ink.
>Extracts from the "Soviet Philosophical Dictionary".Other, paper, ink.