A Century of Automotive Style: 100 Years of American Car Design
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0932128076 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Scientific American This is quite simply the best book ever written on American automotive design.
A Century Of Automotive Style: 100 Years of American Car Design--Excellent Read! Jose Lopez This book first came to my attention while browsing my local library and I came across it, I ended up waiting for the right time for it to pop up on amazon for a good Price(In my case Close to $60! used but like new H/C). And I am very happy now that I own It, Majority of the book is Black and white, Although there is Color. All the Popular Designers are represented well, Including My Favorite GM Designers. Book is excellent for true car aficionados.. Matthew McGinley (real name™) said Fascinating and Impressionistic, Absorbing Photographs!. It is understood that to better appreciate anything in our modern life we need to go back to its origins. Authors Lamm and Holls did that quite adeptly with a wonderfully organized automotive chronologywith the pages beautifully arranged. Most striking is the contrast and resolution of the black and white photographs, which, as the professional photographer already knows, are often preferred over color for those very reasons. Beginning with a light treatise on shipbuilding as a starting point, our authors lead us on a journey through coachbuilding, the "Nuts and Bolts of Early Auto. David B. Reeves ( FyreLine@aol.com ) said Why any serious automotive library should include this book.. What Mike Lamm and Dave Holls have done is a truly monumental task to take the history of automotive styling over the last 100 years and compile it into a readable resource that you can (and will) pick up and put down as you move from era to era, manufacturer to manufacturer, and personality to personality. The numerous "sidebars" offer much-needed insights into the people, places and processes that have produced the "look" of what is argueably the most important invention of the century - the car. This is not a book for an evening's diversion, or a straight-through read. It is bes
The definitive history of American automotive design, complete with designers' biographies, coachbuilder histories, descriptions of car company styling departments, discussions of trends, etc.