Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959

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Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 is written by Dr Vladimir Paperny and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1472434609 (ISBN 10) and 9781472434609 (ISBN 13).

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. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related messages, some of them camouflaged while others quite frank. The book provides a novel assessment of modern architecture’s involvement with national representation it also argues that this widespread confidence in architecture’s ability to act as a propaganda tool was one of the reasons why Modernist architecture lent itself to the service of such different masters.