Title & Author:

Architecture of great expositions 1937-1959 : messages of peace, images of war / edited by Rika Devos, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium ; Alexander Ortenberg, california State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA ; Vladimir Paperny, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Description:

xxvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.
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 Udovic̆ki-Selb -- "Italians do it better": fascist 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 / María Gonzáles Pendás -- Between wars, between blocs: Yugoslavia at Expo 58 / Vladimir Kulić -- Epilogue: images of war and messages of peace: the American story / Lisa D. Schrenk.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781472434609 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472434609 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781472434616
(epub)
9781472434623

Subject:

Pavillon
World Fair
Exhibition buildings History 20th century.
Symbolism in architecture.
Architecture Political aspects History 20th century.
Expositions Constructions Histoire 20e siècle.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Architecture Aspect politique Histoire 20e siècle.
20.13 art exhibitions.
20.10 art and society: general.
Architecture Political aspects
Exhibition buildings
Ausstellungsbau
Architektur
Politik
Symbolism i arkitekturen.
Arkitektur politiska aspekter historia.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Devos, Rika, editor.
Ortenberg, Alexander, 1957- editor.
Papernyĭ, Vladimir, 1944- editor.
Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291438
Call No.: BIB 235070
Status: Available