{"id":26723,"title":"Cultural Freedom in Asia. The proceedings of a conference held at Ragoon, Burma, on February 17-20, 1955, and convened by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Society for the Extension of Democratic Ideals","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1956-01-01","material":"paper, ink","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":138,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Congress for Cultural Freedom","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by Congress for Cultural Freedom\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":18,"permalink":"cultural-freedom-in-asia-the-proceedings-of-a-conference-held-at-ragoon-burma-on-february-17-20-1955-and-convened-by-the-congress-for-cultural-freedom-and-the-society-for-the-extension-of-democratic-ideals","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/309/medium_500/IMG_037.jpg?1603097361","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Leaflet","nl":"Folder","fr":"Brochure"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/309/large/IMG_037.jpg?1603097361","poster_credits":"scan: (c) M HKA, Published by Congress for Cultural Freedom","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe founding conference of the CCF in Berlin was followed by the First Asian Conference on Cultural Freedom, held in Bombay in 1951. The propaganda brochures from the conference focus on two subjects: Indian \u0026#39;neutralism\u0026#39; and advocacy of the American economic model and\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003elaiss\u0026eacute;z-faire\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003ecapitalism. The fight against neutralism was one the key ideas of the CCF, expressed in the\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eManifesto\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;issued in Berlin: \u0026ldquo;We hold that the history and practice of totalitarianism are the greatest threat which humanity has faced in all its recorded history.\u0026nbsp; We believe that apathy and neutrality toward this threat constitute treason to the essential values of mankind, an abdication of the free spirit. Our answer to this challenge will determine whether mankind shall follow the path to totalitarianism or to freedom\u0026rdquo;. Neutralism in India, here, is considered a \u0026ldquo;marked phenomenon\u0026rdquo; of two aspects: an official governmental position of non-alignment in the Cold war and \u0026ldquo;the neutralist sentiment\u0026rdquo;. The first is claimed to be \u0026ldquo;a subject of statecraft and therefore beyond the scope of the CCF, except insofar as foreign policy inevitably plays it\u0026rsquo;s part in the moulding of public sentiment\u0026rdquo;, which is, in its turn, denoted as a primary concern of the CCF.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHet\u0026nbsp;Congress\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;Cultural\u0026nbsp;Freedom\u0026nbsp;(CCF) was een organisatie die in 1950 werd opgericht tijdens een conferentie die een aantal anticommunistische intellectuelen in West-Berlijn bijeenbracht. Het CCF was opgezet als reactie op de creatie van de Wereldvredesraad door de Sovjet-Unie en was bedoeld om weerstand te bieden tegen naoorlogse pro-Sovjet-sympathie\u0026euml;n. Het congres, heimelijk gefinancierd door de Amerikaanse CIA, werd gecre\u0026euml;erd om het wereldwijde communisme te bestrijden, het neutralisme dat zich tijdens de Koude Oorlog voordeed (namelijk landen die geen kamp kozen) te counteren, en de westerse culturele en liberale waarden te promoten. De organisatie was actief in vijfendertig landen, organiseerde culturele evenementen en conferenties, en publiceerde boeken en tal van tijdschriften. De campagne was er ook gericht de perceptie van de VS in Europa positief te be\u0026iuml;nvloeden, via de promotie van Amerikaanse modernistische kunst. De geheime onderneming stopte in 1967, nadat de actieve betrokkenheid van de CIA aan het licht kwam.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}