TY  - BOOK
AU  - Devos,Rika
AU  - Ortenberg,Alexander
TI  - Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War
T2  - Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series
SN  - 9781317179108
AV  - NA6750.A1 .A734 2016 
U1  - 725.910904 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Symbolism in architecture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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