Automania
$49.54
- Hardcover
112 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2021
Summary
Automania explores the ways in which motor vehicles reshaped how people lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves over the course of the 20th century, and the continuing positive and negative imprint on the design and organization of today’s built environment. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, the catalogue showcases ten cars in MoMA’s collection: a Jeep (designed 1952), a Citroën DS23 (1973), a Volkswagen Beetle (designed 1938), a Fiat Cinquecento City Ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781633451278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1633451275 |
| Author: | Andrew Gardne, Juliet Kinchin, Paul Galloway |
| Publisher: | Museum of Modern Art |
| Imprint: | Museum of Modern Art |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 254mm |
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Critics Review
Takes a hard look at our complicated love affair with the car.
Do cars represent the freedom of the open road or are they harbingers of ruin? The answer is yes in “Automania.”–Andrea K. Scott “New Yorker”
A vintage car enthusiast’s delight…featuring early 20th-century models paired with fine art, the new [book] unpacks the complicated role of cars.–Andre Wheeler “Time Out New York”
Takes a hard look at our complicated love affair with the car.–Brett Berk “Vanity Fair”
Andrew Gardne
Juliet Kinchin is a former Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Paul Galloway is a Collection Specialist in the Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA.
Andrew Gardner is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA.
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