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' UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10713137 ER -