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Architecture of great expositions 1937-1959 : messages of peace, images of war
Title
Architecture of great expositions 1937-1959 : messages of peace, images of war / [edited] by Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg and Vladimir Paperny.
ISBN
1317179102
1317179110
1472434609
1472434617
9781317179108
9781317179115
9781472434609
9781472434616
1472434609
9781472434609
9781472434623
Publication
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
"This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959"--Back cover
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Architecture of great expositions 1937-1959
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: messages of peace and images of war: modern architecture as diplomacy / Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg and Vladimir Paperny
L'Exposition de 1937 n'aura pas lieu: the invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German pavilions / Danilo Udovick̆i-Selb
Italians do it better: facist Italy's new brand of nationalism in the art and architecture of the Italian pavilion, Paris 1937 / Flavia Marcello
Architecture as wartime cultural diplomacy: the Japanese pavilion at Paris 1937 / Akiko Takenaka
Hot and Cold War architecture of Soviet pavilions (1937-1959) / Vladimir Paperny
Architecture of light and water at the Universal Exhibition of Rome of 1942 / Angelo Maggi
From statecraft to stagecraft: the visual politics of Britishness at the South Bank Exhibition / Anthony Raynsford
Let us now invest in peace. Architecture at Expo 58 in resonance of war / Rika Devos
Politics of the void: Fraquista Spain at Expo 58 / Mariá Gonzaĺes Pendaś
Between wars, between blocs: Yugoslavia at Expo 58 / Vladimir Kulic ́
Epilogue: images of war and messages of peace: the American story / Lisa D. Schrenk.
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