The Festival of Britain

A Land and Its People

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, History
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Author: Harriet Atkinson ISBN: 9780857732958
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: April 24, 2012
Imprint: I.B. Tauris Language: English
Author: Harriet Atkinson
ISBN: 9780857732958
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: April 24, 2012
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Language: English

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. The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People travels beyond the Festival's spectacular centrepiece at London's South Bank, to events held the length and breadth of the four nations, 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'.

Drawing on ten thousand previously unseen sketches and plans, photographs and fascinating interviews, Harriet Atkinson unveils how the Festival made the whole country an exhibition ground. Everything was on show from homes to farms and factories, and the land itself. She reveals the Festival's genesis in wartime propaganda and international exhibitions and how
the events gave people a good time while presenting the nation as a model democracy as Britain entered the Cold War. Ultimately, the Festival served to rekindle a downtrodden population's love for a disfigured landscape. The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People is a compelling exploration of these unparalleled events.

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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. The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People travels beyond the Festival's spectacular centrepiece at London's South Bank, to events held the length and breadth of the four nations, 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'.

Drawing on ten thousand previously unseen sketches and plans, photographs and fascinating interviews, Harriet Atkinson unveils how the Festival made the whole country an exhibition ground. Everything was on show from homes to farms and factories, and the land itself. She reveals the Festival's genesis in wartime propaganda and international exhibitions and how
the events gave people a good time while presenting the nation as a model democracy as Britain entered the Cold War. Ultimately, the Festival served to rekindle a downtrodden population's love for a disfigured landscape. The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People is a compelling exploration of these unparalleled events.

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