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The Autobiography of a Nation
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.
The Festival of Britain
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'.
The Festival of Britain
* 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 celebrat...
Festival of Britain May 3-September 30, 1951
Pamphlet summarising the events held across London, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wals, plus travelling exhibitions.
Festival of Britain 1951
Lavishly illustrated, the book is an indispensable guide to the 1951 Festival of Britain, its objects and their meanings in the twenty-first century.
