20th Century Classic Cars: 100 Years of Automotive Ads / 100 Jahre Autoweerbung / 100 Ans de Publicite Automobile - Hardcover

Heimann, Jim; Patton, Phil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 383651463X ISBN 13: 9783836514637

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2009

Synopsis

Henry Ford jump-started the age of the automobile with the first assembly-line car in 1908: the Model T. For the next one hundred years, the automobile would evolve from chugging workhorse to tailfin-era showboat to sleek status symbol, stamped with a Mercedes Benz hood ornament. Once a novel invention of wonder, the car of the Postwar Era grew into a necessity of the modern age, a key to the freedom promised by the open road. So various were the choices of colors and features offered to American car buyers, that by 1960 all their possible permutations (by one formula) exceeded the number of molecules on the earth...20th Century Classic Cars offers a lush visual history of the automobile, decade-by-decade, via 500-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection. Advertising has always been the dream work of industry, and nowhere is this more evident than in the world of auto advertising. Narrated with introductory and chapter text by New York Times automotive writer P

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About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 383651463X
• ISBN 13: 9783836514637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 477