Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything - Hardcover

Bayley, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840915358 ISBN 13: 9781840915358

Verlag: Conran, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Sources are eclectic, results mixed, but one thing is certain: car design is being forced up an ever tightening spiral of creativity. These machines are memorials of our tastes, yearnings and capabilities. They have layers of meaning and can, as Henry Ford knew, be read like a book... if only you know how. The story of the car is the story of how the objects of industry became a medium of artistic expression.This book tells that story in a series of case studies which reveal national characteristics: American flair, German technical suprematism, French vernacular chic, gorgeous Italian sculpture, English antiquarianism, Japanese ingenuity, Swedish responsibility. Cars featured appear in chronological date order from the 1908 Ford Model T to 2003 BMW 5 Series.The chosen cars will be specially photographed in a uniform style and reproduced in very textured, 4 colour b/w so as to distance this book from the cliches and conventions of specialist automotive publishing and to highlight form and shape. Each picture will be accompanied by a short critical essay including essential historical material together with colourful anecdotage and quotations as well as a persuasive aesthetic appraisal of each vehicle. This lavish and beautifully designed book is the gift book for all car enthusiasts and design aficionados.

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Stephen Bayley is one of the world's best-known authorities on modern culture, and cars are one of his many passions. He has written extensively on automobiles and automobile design for 25 years for car companies and numerous publications including Car Magazine. He was awarded PPA Columnist of the Year for his car column in GQ (UK). Former Chief Executive of the Design Museum, the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design, he is an outspoken commenter on art and design, writing for numerous publications, appearing frequently on radio and television, and lecturing all over the world.

Stephen Bayley is one of the world's best-known authorities on modern culture, and cars are one of his many passions. He has written extensively on automobiles and automobile design for 25 years for car companies and numerous publications includingCar Magazine. He was awarded PPA Columnist of the Year for his car column inGQ (UK). Former Chief Executive of the Design Museum, the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design, he is an outspoken commenter on art and design, writing for numerous publications, appearing frequently on radio and television, and lecturing all over the world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Conran
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840915358
• ISBN 13: 9781840915358
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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