Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair by Shanken, Andrew M - 2014

Berkeley. 2015. January 2015. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520282827. 7 1/2 x 10. 45 color illus., B&W illus. 200 pages. hardcover . keywords: Architecture. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Into the Void Pacific is the first architectural history of the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. While fairs of the 1930s turned to the future as a foil to the Great Depression, the Golden Gate International Exposition conjured up geographical conceits to explore the nature of the city's place in what organizers called ‘Pacific Civilization.' Shanken adopts the phrase ‘void Pacific' to suggest the isolation and novelty of California and its habit of looking West rather than back over its shoulder to the institutions of the East Coast and Europe. This vision of the Pacific was proposed as an antidote to the troubled Atlantic world, then descending into chaos for the second time in a generation. Architects projected the regionalist sensibilities… Read More

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Hardback. New. Explores how buildings supported the cultural and political work of the fair and fashioned a second, parallel world in a moment of economic depression and international turmoil. This book looks closely at buildings as buildings, analyzing them in light of local circumstances, regionalist sensibilities, and national and international movements.

Univ of California Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 10.00x8.00x1.00 inches.

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