The theatre of exhibitions : Czechoslovakia at the International Exhibition in Paris, 1937

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab052" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab052</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab052" target="_blank" >10.1093/jdh/epab052</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The theatre of exhibitions : Czechoslovakia at the International Exhibition in Paris, 1937

Original language description

How can an exhibition designer engage the visitor to a world’s fair who has already spent hours walking around the grounds, visiting other attractions and countless national pavilions? This question drove many theoretical and practical considerations of exhibition design during the interwar period and preoccupied many designers and artists. As a very active participant in world’s fairs at this time, Czechoslovakia established an intricate system of presenting its material production and cultural prowess which included careful design of the exterior of its pavilion as well as its interior. Using the Czechoslovak pavilion at the International Exhibition of Art an d Technology in Modern Life in Paris, 1937, as a case study, this article examines how Czech designers developed their own original ideas about exhibition design informed by other disciplines. It offers a reading of exhibition design in parallel with stage design and claims that the two shared many techniques, aimed at attracting audiences. It stresses, on the one hand, the affiliation between the two design areas and on the other, the original contribution of designers from Czechoslovakia to the development of exhibition design as a self-sufficient field in the interwar period.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Design History

ISSN

0952-4649

e-ISSN

1741-7279

Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1-19

UT code for WoS article

000756756600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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