Cold War Confrontations US Exhibitions and Their Role in the Cultural Cold War

Name: Cold War Confrontations US Exhibitions and Their Role in the Cultural Cold War
Price: 21.79 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9783037781234

ISBN-10: 3037781238

ISBN-13: 9783037781234

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jack Masey, Conway Lloyd Morgan

List price: $26.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $21.79

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always had a political as well as a commercial and cultural context. This was particularly true during the Cold War when America and the Soviet Union, while laying claim to the same cultural values, used architecture and design to represent their opposing political ideologies at expos and exhibitions in hopes of influencing international fairgoers. Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. He commissioned numerous American architects and designers including R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar to…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Publication date: 1/31/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.102
Language: English

Writer and editor



Preface


A Warm Welcome to the Cold War


Marshall Plan Traveling Caravans


Western Europe, 1948-1951


Atoms for India


"Atomics" Exhibition, United States Pavilion


Indian Industries Fair


New Delhi, India, 1955


A Splendid Pleasure Dome


United States Pavilion


Jeshyn International Fair


Kabul, Afghanistan, 1956


Walls in Berlin


United States Exhibitions


George C. Marshall House


West Berlin, 1957-1959


Atomic Europe


United States Pavilion


Universal and International Exposition


Brussels, Belgium, 1958


High Noon at Sokolniki Park


American National Exhibition


Moscow, USSR, 1959


Traveling Hopefully


American Traveling Exhibitions


Ussr, 1961-1965


Montreal Magnifique


United States Pavilion


Canadian World Exhibition


Montreal, Canada, 1967


Kimonos and Moon Rock


United States Pavilion


Japan World Exposition


Osaka, Japan, 1970


After the Fair


Opportunities Lost and Found


1981 to Present


Appendix