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Informationen zum Autor Harriet Atkinson is a historian of design and culture, and Researcher at the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton, UK. She is currently Principal Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, '"The Materialization of Persuasion": Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance, 1933 to 1953' and has written extensively on the history and theory of exhibitions. She is the author of Festival of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2012) and co-editor, with Jeremy Aynsley, of The Banham Lectures (Bloomsbury, 2009), and with Verity Clarkson and Sarah A. Lichtman, of Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries (Bloomsbury, 2022). Klappentext With A Foreword by Mary Banham. The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. The book 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. With A Foreword by Mary Banham. The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. The book 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. Zusammenfassung With A Foreword by Mary Banham. The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. The book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForeword by Mary BanhamNotes and abbreviationsA brief introduction to the major Festival exhibitionsIntroduction‘It was nice, wasn’t it’Chapter 1.‘This Festival of ours is a deadly serious affair’Chapter 2. Towards a Festival Exhibition StyleChapter 3.‘A constellation of events’Chapter 4. ‘All through the land’/ Exhibiting The Land and People of BritainChapter 5.‘Spontaneous expressions of citizenship’/ Exhibiting People at WorkChapter 6. ‘An essential ingredient of democracy’/ Exhibiting the English LanguageChapter 7. ‘From the planning of the kitchen to the planning of the nation’/ Exhibiting Homes and NeighbourhoodsChapter 8.‘Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye’Postscript60 Years After ‘51Acknowledgements Illustration creditsCaptions Select Bibliography Index...
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Harriet Atkinson is a historian of design and culture, and Researcher at the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton, UK. She is currently Principal Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, '"The Materialization of Persuasion": Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance, 1933 to 1953' and has written extensively on the history and theory of exhibitions. She is the author of Festival of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2012) and co-editor, with Jeremy Aynsley, of The Banham Lectures (Bloomsbury, 2009), and with Verity Clarkson and Sarah A. Lichtman, of Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries (Bloomsbury, 2022).
