£31.90
Add to basket| Price in Euros | €37.98 |
| Price in USD | $50.46 |
| Select your currency | |
| Calculated price | |
FREE UK Postage for online orders over £60
Terms and conditions applyCold War Confrontations: US Exhibitions and Their Role in the Cultural Cold War
Conway Lloyd Morgan and Jack Masey
Product details
Format: Book
Pages: 424
Publisher: Lars Muller
Date Published: Sep 2008
Stock Code: 64528
Binding: Hardback
Extras
Rating
Total votes: 0
Description
Worlds 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 between America and the Soviet Union. 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 design the US presence at major world Expos including Expo 67 in Montreal and Expo 70 in Osaka.
This important new book draws on Maseys recollections, recently declassified documents, unpublished memoirs and photographs, interviews with surviving members of U.S. design teams, and others, to detail the significant role played by architects and designers in shaping Americas image during the cultural Cold War.
Related Items
Cold War Hothouses
The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From...
£19.95
Add to basket
A History of the Future
The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as...
£25.00
Add to basket
Post a Review
You need to be logged in to post a review
