20th Century Classic Cars
By (Author) Phil Patton
Edited by Jim Heimann
Taschen GmbH
Taschen GmbH
17th March 2014
5th January 2023
Multilingual edition
Germany
General
Non Fiction
Photography and photographs
Illustration and commercial art
Advertising
659.19629222
Hardback
592
Width 151mm, Height 195mm, Spine 42mm
1135g
Time-travel through the Automobile Age with a collection that puts you in the driver's seat. 20th Century Classic Cars offers a lush visual history of the automobile, decade by decade, via 400-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection.
Using imagery culled from a century of auto advertising, this book traces the evolution of the auto from horseless carriage to rocket on wheels-and beyond. With an introduction and chapter text by former New York Times automotive writer Phil Patton, as well as an illustrated timeline, this volume highlights the technological innovations, major manufacturers and dealers, historical events, and influence of popular culture on car design.
A brisk spin down a Madison Avenue memory lane, automotive division. * The New York Times *
Phil Patton writes about car design for The New York Timesand is a contributing editor to I.D. magazine. He was a consultant for 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. Jim Heimann is the Executive Editor for TASCHEN. A cultural anthropologist, historian, and an avid collector, he has authored numerous titles on architecture, pop culture, and the history of Los Angeles and Hollywood, including TASCHENs Surfing, Los Angeles. Portrait of a City, California Crazy, and the All-American Ads series.