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Intellectuals and artists during the Cold War
Tomorrow we'll talk a bit about perceptions of "modern art" in 1950s America. Here are some links that might be of interest to you:

On the CIA's funding of artists and intellectuals:
http://www.no2anticommunism.org/en/index.php?info=doc&Id=15

A review article from the New Yorker by Louis Menand, a foremost intellectual historian:
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/051017crat_atlarge

The arts and anti-communism (among other things):
http://www.sunrisedancer.com/radicalreader/library/declarationsofindependence/declarationsofindependence10.asp