Do you think "Cold War nation" makes any sense here? I think it should have been "Cold War nationalism". What do you think?
Context:
Artists also realized that new forms and mediums for political art could deliver dissent or critique more effectively in that they would be less inclined to be appropriated by the State—which possibly might not recognize these forms and objects as art to begin with. Artists who sought to voice dissent, or to protest against the positions and politics of the Cold War nation, began to devise new techniques and even mediums to do so. In the USSR and beyond, samizdat art gained currency as a rejection of official dictates, and socialist realism was openly dismantled in the works of Soviet artists such as Erik Bulatov.
red apple Do you think "Cold War nation" makes any sense here? Yes: it refers to the USSR. red apple I think it should have been "Cold War nationalism That would not make sense: it would refer to patriotism, which is not being discussed.
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red appleDo you think "Cold War nation" makes any sense here?
Yes: it refers to the USSR.
red apple I think it should have been "Cold War nationalism
That would not make sense: it would refer to patriotism, which is not being discussed.