Festival of Britain

A Land and its People

AvHarriet Atkinson

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Beskrivning

The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. Giving Britons an intimate experience of contemporary design and modern building, it helped them accept a landscape under reconstruction, and brought hope of a better world to come. Drawing on previously unseen sketches and plans, photographs and interviews, The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People travels beyond the Festival's spectacular centrepiece at London's South Bank, to show how the Festival made the whole country an exhibition ground with events to which hundreds of the country's greatest architects, artists and designers contributed. It explores exhibitions in Poplar, Battersea and South Kensington in London; Belfast, Glasgow and Wales; a touring show carried on four lorries and another aboard an ex-aircraft carrier. It reveals how all these exhibitions and also plays, poetry, art and films commissioned for the Festival had a single focus: to unite 'the land and people of Britain'.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-04-24
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780857721976
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Medarbetare:Mary Banham

Utforska kategorier

Konstböcker inom Kultur
Övrig scenkonst inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Harriet Atkinson was educated at the University of York, the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art. She was co-editor of The Banham Lectures, and contributor to Findling & Pelle's Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. She has written for various journals of art and design, as well as for The Guardian and The Independent. She is Research Fellow at the University of Brighton and lives in London with her husband and two children.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsForeword by Mary BanhamNotes and abbreviationsA brief introduction to the major Festival exhibitionsIntroduction'It was nice, wasn't it'Chapter 1.'This Festival of ours is a deadly serious affair'Chapter 2. Towards a Festival Exhibition StyleChapter 3.'A constellation of events'Chapter 4. 'All through the land'/ Exhibiting The Land and People of BritainChapter 5.'Spontaneous expressions of citizenship'/ Exhibiting People at WorkChapter 6.'An essential ingredient of democracy'/ Exhibiting the English LanguageChapter 7. 'From the planning of the kitchen to the planning of the nation'/ Exhibiting Homes and NeighbourhoodsChapter 8.'Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye'Postscript60 Years After '51AcknowledgementsIllustration creditsCaptions Select BibliographyIndex