02567nam a2200397 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020001500112020001800127020001500145020001800160020002700178040002100205035002100226043001200247050002400259082001600283100002300299245013000322260012100452300007400573504005100647520100400698533015201702611003201854650003201886651004401918655002901962700001801991710001702009856012602026999001702152ebr10713137CaPaEBRm     o  u        cr cn|||||||||120514s2012    enkabf  sb    001 0 eng d  z  2012427077  z1848857926  z9781780763279  z1780763271  z9781848857926  z9780857721976 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)844939425  ae-uk---14aDA22.A1bA85 2012eb04a700.9412221 aAtkinson, Harriet.14aThe Festival of Britainh[electronic resource] :ba land and its people /cHarriet Atkinson ; with a foreword by Mary Banham.  aLondon ;aNew York :bI.B.Tauris & Co. ;aNew York :bDistributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan,c2012.  axxix, 242 p., [16] p. of plates :bill. (some col.), maps (some col.)  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.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'.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.20aFestival of Britaind(1951) 0aExhibitionszGreat Britain. 0aGreat BritainxSocial conditionsy1945- 7aElectronic books.2local1 aBanham, Mary.2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10713137zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c16037d16037