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Architecture of great expositions 1937-1959 : messages of peace, images of war / edited by Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg [and] Vladimir Paperny.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
"With thanks to the Schusev State Museum of Architecture for providing valuable illustrations"--t.p.

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1. L'Exposition de 1937 n'aura pas lieu : the invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German pavilions / Danilo Udovicki-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 / Maria Gonzalez Pendas -- 9. Between wards, between blocs : Yugoslavia at Expo 58 / Vladimir Kulic.

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