WHEN HARRY MET PABLO: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art

Truman's meeting with Picasso was arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of New York's Museum of Modern Art. He knew that is he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician and the cubist painter, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message to the whole world: modern art is not evil. Well illus.