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Future retro : drawings from the great age of American automobiles : selected from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf collection / essay by Fredrick A. Sharf with additional text by Richard Arbib.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, Mass. : MFA Publications, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: First editionDescription: 79 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0878466908
  • 9780878466900
  • 0878466894
  • 9780878466894
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Future retro.DDC classification:
  • 629.231 22
LOC classification:
  • NC825.A8 S53 2005
  • TL240 .S53 2005
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Designing the American dream : American car styling in the fifties and sixties / Frederic A. Sharf -- The drawings -- Considerations on automobile design / Richard Arbib -- List of illustrations and commentary.
Review: "From preliminary sketches to carefully drafted renderings, these drawings showcase the beauty and ingenuity of automobile design in the heyday of American manufacture. Whether used to float innovations, showcase new developments, or promote the latest models, they are, first and foremost, examples of graphic art. Future Retro looks at cars from a landmark period in American automobile design, the 1940s through the 1960s, providing a rare glimpse into the thinking of premier Detroit car builders. The text discusses such matters as the role of the designer in auto styling, the influence of emerging technologies on postwar car design, and the ways in which these drawings depict a particularly resonant segment of the American dream. Over 50 color illustrations, many never before published, introduce us to cars that are both futuristic and retro, sometimes decidedly wacky (several were too outlandish to build), and always very, very, cool. Future retro offers a lesson in car creation and history to practitioners and students of graphic and industrial design - as well as to anyone who has ever felt the allure of the great American automobile."--BOOK JACKET.
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Issued in connection with the exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 21-July 20, 2005.

Designing the American dream : American car styling in the fifties and sixties / Frederic A. Sharf -- The drawings -- Considerations on automobile design / Richard Arbib -- List of illustrations and commentary.

"From preliminary sketches to carefully drafted renderings, these drawings showcase the beauty and ingenuity of automobile design in the heyday of American manufacture. Whether used to float innovations, showcase new developments, or promote the latest models, they are, first and foremost, examples of graphic art. Future Retro looks at cars from a landmark period in American automobile design, the 1940s through the 1960s, providing a rare glimpse into the thinking of premier Detroit car builders. The text discusses such matters as the role of the designer in auto styling, the influence of emerging technologies on postwar car design, and the ways in which these drawings depict a particularly resonant segment of the American dream. Over 50 color illustrations, many never before published, introduce us to cars that are both futuristic and retro, sometimes decidedly wacky (several were too outlandish to build), and always very, very, cool. Future retro offers a lesson in car creation and history to practitioners and students of graphic and industrial design - as well as to anyone who has ever felt the allure of the great American automobile."--BOOK JACKET.

Also issued online.

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