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100 1 _aAtkinson, Harriet.
245 1 4 _aThe Festival of Britain
_h[electronic resource] :
_ba land and its people /
_cHarriet Atkinson ; with a foreword by Mary Banham.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bI.B.Tauris & Co. ;
_aNew York :
_bDistributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan,
_c2012.
300 _axxix, 242 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aThe 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'.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
611 2 0 _aFestival of Britain
_d(1951)
650 0 _aExhibitions
_zGreat Britain.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xSocial conditions
_y1945-
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aBanham, Mary.
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10713137
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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