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creators_name: Zöllner, Frank
title: John F. Kennedy and Leonardo's Mona Lisa: Art as the Continuation of Politics
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-750
divisions: i-9
cterms_swd: Leonardo <da Vinci> / Mona Lisa
cterms_swd: Kennedy, John F.
abstract: Based on archival research, this article analyses the exhibition of Leonardo's Mona Lisa (Paris, Louvre) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and in New York in 1962/63. The painting was loaned to the US at the height of the Cold War and has wide reaching political implications. "The tremendous sensation created by Mona Lisa's journey to the United States stemmed not only from the painting's fame, but also from officials' eagerness to invest the display of Western civilization's most famous painting with a particularly charged political meaning." Remarkable are also the involvement of Jacqueline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy in acquiring the loan, and the tense political situation shortly before and during the Washington exhibition, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 1997
date_type: published
publisher: ZIP
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00004218
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-2
schriftenreihe_order: 013
ppn_swb: 258453893
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-42186
language: eng
bibsort: ZOLLNERFRAJOHNFKENNE1997
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Zürich
pagerange: 466-479
book_title: Radical Art History. Internationale Anthologie
editors_name: Kersten, Wolfgang
oa_type: green
themen: T11
themen: T14
laender: LIt
laender: LUs
title_lat: John F. Kennedy and Leonardo's Mona Lisa: Art as the Continuation of Politics
citation:   Zöllner, Frank  (1997) John F. Kennedy and Leonardo's Mona Lisa: Art as the Continuation of Politics.   In: Kersten, Wolfgang (Hrsg.):  Radical Art History. Internationale Anthologie.   Zürich, ZIP 1997, pp. 466-479        
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/4218/1/Zoellner_John_F.Kennedy_and_Leonardo_1997.pdf