MoMa and Cultural Imperialism in Latin America
KPFA - Against the Grain
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The Politics of Modern Architecture in the United States
MoMA's 1932 exhibition is a new way of politicizing the international style, he says. "The supposed erasure of the social grounds, particularly in Germany, by representing the U.S., that kind of erasure of politics becomes a political project" The museum aims to proselytize this type of vision of the world, and it won't examine architecture from the 30s, Nussbaum adds.
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