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Title Architecture of great expositions 1937-1959 : messages of peace, images of war / edited by Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg [and] Vladimir Paperny
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
Series Ashgate studies in architecture series
Ashgate studies in architecture series.
Contents 1. L'Exposition de 1937 n'aura pas lieu : the invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German pavilions / Danilo Udovički-Selb -- 2. "Italians do it better" : Fascist Italy's new brand of nationalism in the art and architecture of the Italian pavilion, Paris 1937 / Flavia Marcello -- 3. Architecture as wartime cultural diplomacy : the Japanese pavilion at Paris 1937 / Akiko Takenaka -- 4. Hot and cold war in architecture of Soviet pavilions (1937-1959) / Vladimir Paperny -- 5. Architecture of light and water at the universal exhibition of Rome of 1942 / Angelo Maggi -- 6. From statecraft to stagecraft : the visual politics of Britishness at the South Bank Exhibition / Anthony Raynsford -- 7. "Let us now invest in peace" : architecture at Expo 58 in resonance of war / Rika Devos -- 8. Politics of the void : Franquista Spain at expo 58 / María González Pendás -- 9. Between wards, between blocs : Yugoslavia at Expo 58 / Vladimir Kulić
Notes "With thanks to the Schusev State Museum of Architecture for providing valuable illustrations."
"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Exhibition buildings -- History -- 20th century
Symbolism in architecture.
Architecture -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Architecture -- Political aspects
Exhibition buildings
Symbolism in architecture
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Devos, Rika
Ortenberg, Alexander,
Papernyĭ, Vladimir,
Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ arkhitektury im. A.V. Shchuseva.
ISBN 9781315567747
1315567741
9781317179108
1317179102
1317179099
9781317179092
1472434617
9781472434616