Cultural Mapping in 1951: The Festival of Britain Regional Guidebooks

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Festival Of Britain

scholarly journals The South Bank Exhibition, Londres 1951: un análisis desde The Architectural Review

ZARCH ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Carlos Montes Serrano ◽  
Víctor Lafuente Sánchez ◽  
Daniel López Bragado
Keyword(s):  
Master Plan ◽  
The South ◽  
Festival Of Britain ◽  
New Brutalism ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
Reyner Banham

La exposición Festival of Britain de Londres de 1951 ocupa un destacado lugar en la historia de la arquitectura inglesa de la postguerra por ser el punto de arranque de la recuperación urbana del South Bank de Londres. Tuvo un gran apoyo y protagonismo en The Architectural Review, que publicó varios artículos y un número monográfico con el fin de mostrar como el master plan de la exposición se ajustaba a los ideales del Visual Planning y del Townscape que la revista venía difundiendo desde hacía unos años. Pero también fue criticada por un grupo de jóvenes arquitectos liderados por Reyner Banham que como reacción propondrían una arquitectura alternativa que fue denominada como el New Brutalism.

Festival of Britain

Nature ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 167 (4254) ◽  
pp. 753-754
Keyword(s):  
Festival Of Britain

Insane Acquaintances

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Festival Of Britain ◽  
Post War

Insane Acquaintances charts the varied encounters between artistic modernism and the British public in the years between ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (1910) and the Festival of Britain (1951). Through a range of case studies which explore the work of the ‘mediators’ of modernism in Britain – those individuals, groups and organisations which facilitated the introduction of modernist art and design to public audiences during the first part of the twentieth century – Insane Acquaintances explores the social, political and cultural impact of visual modernism over the course of four decades. Focusing on the efforts to legitimise, explain and make authentic the abstract (and often continental) modernist aesthetics that shaped British artistic culture during the years 1910-1951, this study charts the changing taste of the nation, through chapters on Postimpressionist art and crafts, modernist art in schools, the home design and decoration, Surrealism and revolution and the post-War institutionalisation and funding of the arts.

A Conspectus of Science, 1851–1951: Festival of Britain Lecture

1951 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
F. Sherwood Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Festival Of Britain

So great has been the achievement of science during the past century, that, were I to do no more than to recite the titles of its major discoveries, my allotted hour would scarce suffice. Indeed my hearers are well enough acquainted with the outline and general course of scientific discovery during the last hundred years: to epitomise it would be superfluous as well as arduous.

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