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Author: Jonathan Coe Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 054434376X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 291
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An English public employee becomes embroiled in a Soviet plot while he oversees the construction of an authentic British pub being showcased at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
Author: Jonathan Coe Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 054434376X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 291
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An English public employee becomes embroiled in a Soviet plot while he oversees the construction of an authentic British pub being showcased at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
Author: Gonzague Pluvinage Publisher: Lannoo Uitgeverij ISBN: 9782873865412 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 216
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The Atomium in Brussels is one of the tourist highlights of Belgium and was built specifically for the World Expo in 1958. Nearly 15,000 workers spent three years building the 2 km2 site, found on the Heysel plateau, seven kilometres northwest of Brussels. The site is best known for a giant model of a unit cell of an iron crystal (each sphere representing an atom), called the Atomium, which decades later remains one of the best known landmarks of Brussels. The 1958 Expo could be said to be a reflection of a changing society and of the economical, technical and social advances towards modernity that paved the way for the age of prosperity the Western World experienced in the sixties. The Expo ran for 6 months and was visited by over 42 million people. The exhibition features archived documents, such as the plans of the 1958 Expo, typical fifties objects, films of the time showing what was going on in the aisles of the Expo, several scale models including the Civil Engineering Arrow and the Place de Brouckère information centre, which transport the visitor back to the world of 58 and the spectacle of this unique event. As a symbol of these years of optimism, Expo 58 left an idyllic picture to the Belgians of a period of hope and utopia that can be discovered or rediscovered through the exhibition. SELLING POINTS: *Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Expo 58 is due to be featured in an exhibition taking place in the Atomium in Brussels. This lavishly illustrated book is the official catalogue that accompanies it *A fascinating look at a period of revolution in many areas of society, this book is perfect for those who wish to be transported to an age of excitement and fresh ideas, as well as those who can remember the fair itself and the anticipation that preceded it 100 b/w + 90 colour illustrations
Author: Arthur P. Molella Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 9780822945789 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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The post–World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation, communications, and computers. Major advancements in Cold War science and technology helped to shape new visions of utopian futures, the stock-in-trade of world’s fairs. From the 1940s to the 1980s, expositions in the United States and around the world, from Brussels to Osaka to Brisbane, mirrored Cold War culture in a variety of ways, and also played an active role in shaping it. This volume illustrates the cultural change and strain spurred by the Cold War, a disruptive period of scientific and technological progress that ignited growing concern over the impact of such progress on the environment and humanistic and spiritual values. Through the lens of world’s fairs, contributors across disciplines offer an integrated exploration of the US–USSR rivalry from a global perspective and in the context of broader social and cultural phenomena—faith and religion, gender and family relations, urbanization and urban planning, fashion, modernization, and national identity—all of which were fundamentally reshaped by tensions and anxieties of the Atomic Age.
Author: Robert W. Rydell Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226732371 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 281
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In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history—begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair—this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few—particularly artists, architects, and scientists—were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America—a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.
Author: Coe Jonathan Publisher: Elefant Online ISBN: 9734645005 Category : Fiction Languages : ro Pages : 292
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Thomas Foley e un mărunt funcționar britanic, plictisit de munca lui la Biroul Central de Informații. Însă un eveniment neașteptat îi schimbă radical destinul: în anul 1958 este trimis la Bruxelles, ca să supravegheze activitatea pubului tradițional construit în pavilionul britanic cu ocazia Expoziției Internaționale din Belgia. Thomas descoperă la Bruxelles o lume diversă și dezinhibată. Flirtează cu o frumoasă însoțitoare de la Expo, se împrietenește cu un pretins jurnalist rus, iar la un moment dat e implicat într-o afacere de spionaj internațional. Vor trece decenii până când va ajunge să înțeleagă ce a făcut el de fapt în Bruxelles, dar e deja prea târziu ca să mai schimbe ceva.
Author: Jonathan Coe Publisher: Editions Gallimard ISBN: 9782070142798 Category : Brussels (Belgium) Languages : fr Pages : 329
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Londres, 1958. Thomas Foley dispose d'une certaine ancienneté au ministère de l'Information quand on vient lui proposer de participer à un événement historique, l'Exposition universelle, qui doit se tenir cette année-là à Bruxelles. Il devra y superviser la construction du Pavillon britannique et veiller à la bonne tenue d'un pub, Le Britannia, censé incarner la culture de son pays. Le jeune Foley, alors qu'il vient de devenir père, est séduit par cette proposition exotique, et Sylvia, son épouse, ne voit pas son départ d'un très bon oeil. Elle fera toutefois bonne figure, et la correspondance qu'ils échangeront viendra entrecouper le récit des nombreuses péripéties qui attendent notre héros au pays du roi Baudouin, où il est très vite rejoint par de savoureux personnages : Chersky, un journaliste russe qui pose des questions à la manière du KGB, Tony, le scientifique anglais responsable d'une machine, la ZETA, qui pourrait faire avancer la technologie du nucléaire, Anneke, enfin, l'hôtesse belge qui va devenir sa garde rapprochée... Coe embarque le lecteur dans une histoire pleine de rebondissements, sans que jamais la tension ne retombe ou que le ridicule ne l'emporte. Sous la forme d'une parodie de roman d'espionnage, il médite sur le sens de nos existences et dresse le portrait d'un monde disparu, l'Angleterre des années 1950, une société tiraillée entre une certaine attirance pour la liberté que semble offrir la modernité et un attachement viscéral aux convenances et aux traditions en place.
Author: Joe Sonderman Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738561097 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 34
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Contains captioned, archival photographs that trace the history of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, from the groundbreaking to the closing ceremonies.
Author: Jonathan Coe
Author: Jonathan Coe
Author: Gonzague Pluvinage
Author: Louise Penny
Author: Arthur P. Molella
Author: Robert W. Rydell
Author: Coe Jonathan
Author: Jonathan Coe
Author: Jonathan Coe
Author: Jonathan Coe
Author: Joe Sonderman