The Kitchen Debate: The History of a Recording and a Photograph
Abstract
In 1959 the vice-president of the USA, Richard Nixon visited Moscow in order to take part in the opening ceremony of the American National Exhibition. The main attractions of the exhibition were fully furnished American interiors, for example a fully equipped kitchen, which gave the name to the debate. The exhibition was of a significant symbolic importance: it signaled a thawing of the relations between East and West. It also showed that after years of isolation, USSR was ready to show its citizens how people live in the capitalist system. Giżycki writes about the „kitchen debate” between Nixon and Khrushchev, the photograph published in the Russian newspaper “Izviestia” and about the famous photograph taken by William Safire.
Keywords:
American National Exhibition, Richard Nixon, Nikita Khrushchev, William SafireReferences
Goldberg Vicki, The Power of Photography, Abbeville Press, New York – London – Paris 1991, s. 83.
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Reid Susan E., „Our Kitchen Is Just as Good”: Soviet Responses to the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959, w: Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970, red. D. Crowley, J. Pavitt, V&A Publications, London 2008, s. 154.
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Marcin Giżyckikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Rhode Island School of Design United States
Dr hab. Krytyk i historyk sztuki, autor książek z dziedziny historii filmu i zjawisk kultury artystycznej. Wykładowca w Rhode Island School of Design w USA. Opublikował m.in. Nie tylko Disney — rzecz o kinie animowanym (2000), Koniec i co dalej? (2001), Słownik kierunków, ruchów i kluczowych pojęć sztuki drugiej połowy XX wieku (2002), Wenders do domu! Europejskie filmy o Ameryce i ich recepcja w Stanach Zjednoczonych (2006).
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