TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atkinson,Harriet
AU  - Banham,Mary
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The Festival of Britain: a land and its people 
AV  - DA22.A1 A85 2012eb
U1  - 700.941 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - I.B.Tauris & Co., Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Festival of Britain
KW  - (1951)
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - 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'
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ER  -