Styles and Movements Within Car Design
Many different influences have affected the design of cars over the years. In this section, several books take a look at the different ways car design has been approached.
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A Century of Automotive Style
100 Years of American Car Design
A comprehensive look at automotive styling over the last 100 years in America. Looking at every styling trend and movement since the beginning, this book forms a valuable resource.
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Auto Opium - A Social History of Automobile Design
David Gartman
A comprehensive history of American automobile design, spanning aesthetics, social aspects and culture.
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Moving Objects
Stephen Bayley, Giles Chapman
Moving Objects (edited by Stephen Bayley and Giles Chapman) was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name that ran at the Royal College of Art Summer 1999. It is the most complete study ever published on the theory and practice of contemporary car design. Its audience is the design professions, the interested public, car enthusiasts, style watchers, cultural historians and semioticians. Moving Objects Contributors Stephen Bayley, Laura Blossfeld, Richard Bremner, Russell Bulgin, Giles Cahpman, Mathew Gwyther, Michael Harvey, Keith Howard, Martin Pawley, Haig Simonian, Penny Sparke, Kate Trant, Bettina von Hase
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The Art of American Car Design : The Profession and Personalities
by C. Edson Armi
Armi (art history, U. of No. Carolina) presents the first in depth analysis of the car design profession in the US. He includes interviews with America's great car designers and uniquely approaches them and their discipline from an art-historical perspective. He examines the actual process of designing cars, and explores the personalities of the car designers with an eye on the effect of those personalities on the process of creation. 116 b&w photos.
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