The Festival of Britain (Record no. 1042)
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 700.941 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Atkinson, Harriet. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Festival of Britain |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | I.B.Tauris & Co. ; |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Year of publication | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxix, 242 p., [16] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details | ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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'. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Exhibitions |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Banham, Mary. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10713137 |
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