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Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair Hardcover - 2015
by Andrew Shanken
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- Title Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair
- Author Andrew Shanken
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2015
- ISBN 9780520282827 / 0520282825
- Weight 1.94 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 10.2 x 7.6 x 0.8 in (25.91 x 19.30 x 2.03 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014941493
- Dewey Decimal Code 725
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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…
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