There's an interesting book on this subject
"Who Paid the Piper - The CIA and the Cultural Cold War" by Frances Stonor
Saunders
The CIA not only funded Quadrant but also Encounter, and magazines across the
world in India and the Middle East.
Pound and Lowell gets mentioned, the latter in a stand-out tragi-comedic visit to
Argentina.
The book doesn't mention directly funding artists, but it was all done through
foundations. The book makes fascinating reading.
it is interesting, as a side line, that the same shadowy CIA figures who get
mentioned here, also appear, to me, to crop up in Watergate.
Roger
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Subject: Re: "The CIA as Culture Vultures", in Jacket magazine
> The CIA also funded the abstract expressionists, because of the
> perception that Europe was way ahead in the culture stakes. It's a kind
> of peculiar thought. I doubt they'd fund any avant gard art now.
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> Though I suppose there's always Saatchi and Saatchi.
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> Cheers
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