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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. 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'.
Contents
Contents
Foreword by Mary Banham
Notes and abbreviations
A brief introduction to the major Festival exhibitions
Introduction
'It was nice, wasn't it'
Chapter 1.
'This Festival of ours is a deadly serious affair'
Chapter 2.
Towards a Festival Exhibition Style
Chapter 3.
'A constellation of events'
Chapter 4.
'All through the land'/ Exhibiting The Land and People of Britain
Chapter 5.
'Spontaneous expressions of citizenship'/ Exhibiting People at Work
Chapter 6.
'An essential ingredient of democracy'/ Exhibiting the English Language
Chapter 7.
'From the planning of the kitchen to the planning of the nation'/ Exhibiting Homes and Neighbourhoods
Chapter 8.
'Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye'
Postscript
60 Years After '51
Acknowledgements
Illustration credits
Captions
Select Bibliography
Index
