20th Century Classic Cars. 100 Years of Automotive Ads
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20th Century Classic Cars. 100 Years of Automotive Ads by Phil Patton
Offers a visual history of the automobile, decade-by-decade, through over 500 print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection. This book highlights the technological innovations, major manufacturers and dealers, influential historical events, and the influence of popular culture on car design.
Cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America in Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books on architecture, popular culture, and the history of the West Coast, in particular, Los Angeles and the Hollywood dream factory. For over 30 years he has built an unrivaled private collection of ephemera, which has been featured museum exhibitions around the world and in dozens of his books. Phil Patton is the author of many books on design and culture, writes about automobile design for The New York Times, and is a contributing editor to ID magazine. He has served as consultant for museum exhibitions including "Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design" at the Phoenix Art Museum, and "Different Roads: Automobiles for the Next Century" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9783836514637 |
| ISBN 10 | 383651463X |
| Title | 20th Century Classic Cars. 100 Years of Automotive Ads |
| Author | Phil Patton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taschen GmbH |
| Year published | 2009-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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