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Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 : Messages of Peace, Images of War.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate Studies in Architecture SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317179108
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959DDC classification:
  • 725.910904
LOC classification:
  • NA6750.A1 .A734 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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 '59.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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