{"product_id":"fair-park-deco","title":"Fair Park Deco: Art and Architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFair Park Deco\u003c\/i\u003e is 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFair 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46507074126034,"sku":"9780875655017","price":64.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6b3e7f2e-3930-4756-ae08-c574188c6d5a.jpg?v=1764390637","url":"https:\/\/iandigo.com\/products\/fair-park-deco","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}