Fair Park deco : art and architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition / Jim Parsons and David Bush ; foreword by Virginia McAlester.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, Description: 222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780875655017
  • 0875655017
Other title:
  • Art and architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.764/0747642812 23
LOC classification:
  • N6494.A7 P37 2012
Contents:
Introduction -- Entrance and Grand Plaza -- Esplanade of State -- State of Texas Building -- Agrarian Parkway -- Federal Concourse -- Civic Center and Centennial Drive -- Midway, Cotton Bowl, and San Jacinto Drive -- After 1936 -- Architects and artists.
Summary: A fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Like every American exposition in the 1930s, it began in economic depression. Although its economy had been buoyed by major oil discoveries in the early '30s, Texas agriculture was hard hit by the Great Depression. By the middle of the decade, state officials had set their sights on a great centennial celebration to help stimulate the economy and attract tourist dollars. If during the next six months the people of the state could become filled with the idea of holding a big celebration on the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Texas independence, the state?s centennial commission speculated in July, 1934, it would have the effect of creating a general forward-looking spirit through the state. It would be more stimulating than anything we can think of, and this effect would be immediate. This book focuses specifically on the Art Deco art and architecture of Fair Park the public spaces, buildings, sculptures and murals that were designed for the 1936 exposition. Most of the chapters in the book represent different areas of Fair Park, with buildings and artwork effectively arranged in the same order that a visitor to the Texas Centennial Exposition might have seen them. The art and architecture are featured in original photography by Jim Parsons and David Bush as well as in historic photographs. Fair Park is one of the finest collections of Deco architecture in the country, but it is so much more: the embodiment of Texan swagger, it is a testament to the Texanic task of creating a dazzling spectacle in the darkest days of the Depression.--Amazon.com.
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Introduction -- Entrance and Grand Plaza -- Esplanade of State -- State of Texas Building -- Agrarian Parkway -- Federal Concourse -- Civic Center and Centennial Drive -- Midway, Cotton Bowl, and San Jacinto Drive -- After 1936 -- Architects and artists.

A fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Like every American exposition in the 1930s, it began in economic depression. Although its economy had been buoyed by major oil discoveries in the early '30s, Texas agriculture was hard hit by the Great Depression. By the middle of the decade, state officials had set their sights on a great centennial celebration to help stimulate the economy and attract tourist dollars. If during the next six months the people of the state could become filled with the idea of holding a big celebration on the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Texas independence, the state?s centennial commission speculated in July, 1934, it would have the effect of creating a general forward-looking spirit through the state. It would be more stimulating than anything we can think of, and this effect would be immediate. This book focuses specifically on the Art Deco art and architecture of Fair Park the public spaces, buildings, sculptures and murals that were designed for the 1936 exposition. Most of the chapters in the book represent different areas of Fair Park, with buildings and artwork effectively arranged in the same order that a visitor to the Texas Centennial Exposition might have seen them. The art and architecture are featured in original photography by Jim Parsons and David Bush as well as in historic photographs. Fair Park is one of the finest collections of Deco architecture in the country, but it is so much more: the embodiment of Texan swagger, it is a testament to the Texanic task of creating a dazzling spectacle in the darkest days of the Depression.--Amazon.com.

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