The Free World

Two differing explorations of post-WWII culture, politics, and ideals.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a new generation of American artists began to think of advertising and commercial imagery as the new avant-garde.

In ‘The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,’ Louis Menand explores the poetry, music, painting, dance and film that emerged during the Cold War.

The New Yorker critic's new book is a sequel of sorts to "The Metaphysical Club."