dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
titel: Festival of Britain
jahr: 1951
adresse: South Bank, London
+: «The 1951 Festival of Britain brought together artists and architects in a celebration of British culture which looked to the future as well as the past. Misha Black, one of the principal organisers of the Festival, later wrote: 'Those of us who were responsible for the design of the exhibition set ourselves two objectives. The first was to demonstrate the quality of modern architecture, landscape architecture and town planning; the second to show that painters and sculptors could work with architects and exhibition designers to produce an aesthetic unity.' (quoted in Banham and Hillier, p.92)» (Tate Gallery, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nicholson-festival-of-britain-mural-t07027, May 28th, 2018)
«Apart from these works [by Ben Nicholson and Victor Pasmore], figurative pieces prevailed, with indoor and outdoor work by artists on the South Bank and the Festival Pleasure Gardens in Battersea […].» (Artmonsky et al., 2013, p. 58)