Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present

by Pamela M Lee

How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.

In Think Tank Aesthetics, Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043521
• ISBN13: 9780262043526
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.1"