Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 : Messages of Peace, Images of War.
Devos, Rika.
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 : Messages of Peace, Images of War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (256 pages) - Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series . - Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction Messages of Peace and Images of War: Modern Architecture as Diplomacy -- 1 L'Exposition de 1937 n'aura pas lieu: The Invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions -- 2 "Italians do it Better": Fascist Italy's New Brand of Nationalism in the Art and Architecture of the Italian Pavilion, Paris 1937 -- 3 Architecture as Wartime Cultural Diplomacy: The Japanese Pavilion at Paris 1937 -- 4 Hot and Cold War in Architecture of Soviet Pavilions (1937-1959) -- 5 Architecture of Light and Water at the Universal Exhibition of Rome of 1942 -- 6 From Statecraft to Stagecraft: The Visual Politics of Britishness at the South Bank Exhibition -- 7 "Let us now invest in peace. "Architecture at Expo 58 in Resonance of War -- 8 Politics of the Void: Franquista Spain at Expo 58 -- 9 Between Wars, Between Blocs: Yugoslavia at Expo 58 -- Epilogue: Images of War and Messages of Peace: The American Story -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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 '59.
9781317179108
Symbolism in architecture.
Electronic books.
NA6750.A1 .A734 2016
725.910904
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 : Messages of Peace, Images of War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (256 pages) - Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series . - Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction Messages of Peace and Images of War: Modern Architecture as Diplomacy -- 1 L'Exposition de 1937 n'aura pas lieu: The Invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions -- 2 "Italians do it Better": Fascist Italy's New Brand of Nationalism in the Art and Architecture of the Italian Pavilion, Paris 1937 -- 3 Architecture as Wartime Cultural Diplomacy: The Japanese Pavilion at Paris 1937 -- 4 Hot and Cold War in Architecture of Soviet Pavilions (1937-1959) -- 5 Architecture of Light and Water at the Universal Exhibition of Rome of 1942 -- 6 From Statecraft to Stagecraft: The Visual Politics of Britishness at the South Bank Exhibition -- 7 "Let us now invest in peace. "Architecture at Expo 58 in Resonance of War -- 8 Politics of the Void: Franquista Spain at Expo 58 -- 9 Between Wars, Between Blocs: Yugoslavia at Expo 58 -- Epilogue: Images of War and Messages of Peace: The American Story -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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 '59.
9781317179108
Symbolism in architecture.
Electronic books.
NA6750.A1 .A734 2016
725.910904