Automobile Styling: From Evolution to Fashion
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00B7RYMBI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 127 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a book to read and reread for anyone trying to make sense of auto styling. This is just the kind of book that appeals to me, and, I would think, a lot of other people. I recommend this book as one of the best values at Amazon. The writer takes auto styling from just a jumble of parts to the sleek styling of the 19This is a book to read and reread for anyone trying to make sense of auto styling. Amazon Customer This is just the kind of book that appeals to me, and, I would think, a lot of other people. I recommend this book as one of the best values at Amazon. The writer takes auto styling from just a jumble of parts to the sleek styling of the 1949 Ford which, he says, set the standard of modern day autos. (I would have thrown in the 1949 Plymouth, but would have bee. 9 Ford which, he says, set the standard of modern day autos. (I would have thrown in the 19This is a book to read and reread for anyone trying to make sense of auto styling. Amazon Customer This is just the kind of book that appeals to me, and, I would think, a lot of other people. I recommend this book as one of the best values at Amazon. The writer takes auto styling from just a jumble of parts to the sleek styling of the 1949 Ford which, he says, set the standard of modern day autos. (I would have thrown in the 1949 Plymouth, but would have bee. 9 Plymouth, but would have bee
Does the general appearance of automobiles evolve over time, or are changes more matters of fashion than direction?This book asserts that the design of American cars went through two evolutionary phases. Background information and design critiques are included to provide the reader an understanding as to why various cars looked the way they did.. The first was in the early years when inventors were figuring out how best to configure automobiles; this phase was completed by about 1920. Since then, it is asserted that there has been no evolutionary thrust for automobile design. The second period of evolution lasted from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, when separate components such as headlamps, fenders, running boards and other items became blended into partly-streamlined unitary or "envelope" body shapes. The text is written around a large number of pictures of automobiles selected to demonstrate the thesis just outlined. Various styles come, go, and sometimes return, partly affected by external influences related mostly to technological changes and government regulations.This book focuses on the period from the mid-1920s, another era with little sense of design direction, through the evolutionary and post-evolutionary periods just mentioned