For this report I tried to do something a little different by combining different sources to create a brief history of US government involvement in art from ~1935-1960. The end of the report features my own takeaways from the subject. Here are some of my favorites I came across while researching: 1. Frances Stonor Saunders - The Cultural Cold War this is a great book I drew on for the Cold War section of the report– highly recommended! 2. Serge Guilbaut - How New York Stole The Idea of Modernism this is a super granular account of the political motivations of Modernism's various cultural factions I drew on for the 1930's section of the report 3. Eva Cockcroft - Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of The Cold War this 1974 essay is really the original one to break the topic wide open in the art world. It's fun (and sad!) to see a time when writing in Artforum could be so thought-provoking, concise, and intelligibly written.