本文主要以1955年MoMA在巴黎举办的“美国艺术50年”展览为例,考察第二次世界大战之后设计作品在美国对欧洲的文化冷战中所扮演的角色。在推销美国生活方式以及自由、平等的价值观之外,这次展览试图将美国的设计塑造成与抽象表现主义一样的现代主义经典文化,从而改善法国人对美国文化的印象。 This paper mainly takes the “50 Years of American Art” exhibition held by MoMA in Paris as an example in 1955 to examine the role of design work after the Second World War in the U.S. Cold War on Europe’s culture. In an effort to promote American lifestyles and values ​​of freedom and equality, the exhibition attempts to shape American design into the same classic modernist culture as abstract expressionism, thereby improving the French’s impression of American culture.