Download or read book Festival of Britain 1951 written by Great Britain. Festival of Britain Office and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Festival of Britain written by Harriet Atkinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.
Download or read book The Festival of Britain written by Harriet Atkinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.
Download or read book Festival of Britain 1951 written by Paul Rennie and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated, the book is an indispensable guide to the 1951 Festival of Britain, its objects and their meanings in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Nation written by Becky Conekin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional book is the first full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. As a consciously constructed cultural and educational event, or rather series of events, the Festival provides an opportunity to see a society and a government struggling to recast national identity after the experience of World War II. Primarily an examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951 Festival’s exhibitions and events, Becky E. Conekin considers the Festival’s history and historiography, its purpose, its representations of the future and the past, the role of London and the "local", the British Empire and finally its legacy.
Download or read book Festival of Britain 1951 Art Exhibition May 5th October 31st Third Impression A Catalogue written by Graves Art Gallery (Sheffield, England) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Festival of Britain 1951 written by Graves Art Gallery (Sheffield) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Exhibition of 1851 written by Jeffrey A. Auerbach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Nation written by Becky Elizabeth Conekin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lost London 2 written by Vic Keegan and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vic Keegan's Lost London (2) is the second of two books that together have taken over six years of research and are still yielding surprises Vic had no idea that the mundane Highbury and Islington station used to look like an Italian Palazzo before being shamefully pull down, nor that there was an extraordinary cricket match in Walworth between a team from Greenwich with only one leg and the other from Chelsea with only one arm, nor that in 1810, a black bare knuckle fighter was swindled out of being world champion by white subterfuge. There are dozens of similar tales which he hopes you will enjoy. The author spent most of his working life at the Guardian writing among other things a fortnightly economics column for nearly 25 years before finishing off with a weekly column on consumer technology ranging from mobile phones to virtual worlds. He has written six poetry books including London My London with over 80 poems about the capital and the Thames. He is married to Rosie with two children Dan and Chris. David Aaronovitch's review of the first book is here: https: //www.onlondon.co.uk/book-review-vic-keegans-lost-london/
Download or read book The Festival of Britain written by Matthew Denney and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Offers an illuminating insight into the 1951 Festival of Britain, which celebrated the post-war generation's excitement and enthusiasm for the new era* Young artists, architects, designers, and social planners worked together to create a coherent modern 'townscape' on the south bank of the Thames. Alongside this, all over Britain exhibitions, displays, shows, and events were held to 'join in the party'* Presenting the organization, the range of characters involved, the sights to be scene, and the multitude of events heldIn 1951, across Britain, in communities large and small, a government-organized celebration took place. From an open air production of Hiawatha in Paignton, to the celebrations throughout the summer on the South Bank of the Thames in London, the Festival was for all the people of Britain and as many from further afield as could be attracted. Britain was at home to the World, there was a cheerful optimism and a positive image presented of a nation that was moving forward and was proud of its place in the World. The Second World War had been won, hardships and shortages might still have been an everyday reality, but it was time for a celebration.This is the story of the Festival of Britain, of Britain in 1951, and the Festival's place in the history of national and international exhibitions. Britain in 1951 was still a land of bomb sites and damaged houses, rationing was still in place, the school leaving age was 14 and the National Health Service was in its infancy. Many people still did not have inside plumbing, Everest had yet to be climbed, airports for commercial passenger flight were only just opening. In so many ways a vastly different Britain to that of today, yet in 1951, on the South Bank, buildings with glass walls, steel structures and suspended walkways were decorated with strikingly modern statues by artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. At a time when few people had seen television, let alone owned a set, London saw the first ever computer game and promised a future with newly developed technology which would result in never-before-imagined possibilities of travel, health, education, opportunity and above all national prosperity.The events of the Festival year give us the opportunity to reflect on the state of the nation in 1951 and to assess the claims that were made for the future. Greatness in the arts, design, and architecture is not enjoyed equally by all generations across history, a brief list of those who played a part in the Festival (Hugh Casson, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, John Piper, Robin Day, Graham Sutherland, Barbara Hepworth, Wells Coates and Basil Spence) suggests that this truly was a great period in art and design.The Festival of Britain was a unique moment in the history of 20th century Britain. This volume offers an insight into 1951, the organization of the many attractions, the characters involved, the events held and the sights that could be seen. The illustrations of some of the many artefacts that have come down to us from 1951 portray this history, as do period photographs and the images from official publications and promotional material. A nation celebrated, and had a party that is remembered with much fondness by those who were a part of it, and is still of endless interest to us today.
Download or read book Festival of Britain written by Illustrated London News and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Festival of Britain Exhibition of Local Art Treasures June 2 to September 30 1951 written by Atkinson Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Festival of Britain Exhibition Splendid Occasions written by Arts Council of Great Britain (London) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books written by National Book League (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Festival of Britain 1951 Art Exhibition May 5th October 31st written by Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
