After World War II, Soviet institutions organized many exhibitions of the American artist Rockwell Kent that bypassed the U.S. government. Promotion of Kent's work in the USSR was an exclusively Soviet enterprise. This article sheds new light on the Soviet approach to the representation of U.S. visual art during the Cold War. Drawing on U.S. and Russian archives, the article provides a comprehensive analysis of the political and aesthetic factors that resulted in Kent's immense popularity in the Soviet Union. Contextualizing the Soviet representation of Kent within relevant Cold War contexts, the article shows that his art occupied a specific symbolic position in Soviet culture. Soviet propaganda reconceptualized his biography and established the “Myth of Rockwell Kent”—a myth that helped to legitimate Soviet ideology and anti-American propaganda.

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陌生人中的家：美国艺术家、苏联和冷战期间罗克韦尔肯特的神话

二战后，苏联机构绕过美国政府组织了许多美国艺术家罗克韦尔肯特的展览。促进肯特在苏联的工作完全是苏联的事业。这篇文章揭示了冷战期间苏联对美国视觉艺术表现形式的新看法。文章借鉴美国和俄罗斯的档案，全面分析了导致肯特在苏联广受欢迎的政治和审美因素。文章将肯特在相关冷战背景下的苏联表现置于语境中，表明他的艺术在苏联文化中占据了特定的象征地位。