Archive for Items Categorized 'Art, Artists and Design', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

One Track Mind, The Art of Robert E. Gillespie

by Robert E. Gillespie

Go ahead, count the rivets. His father did, which taught young Bob an important lesson: people who know will notice details, which is why he puts them in his work, whether it’s birds of prey or the fighter planes that borrow their names, or landscapes, or the race cars on his home track of Watkins Glen.

When Wedge had the Edge

by Gautam Sen

Not every car design that is pointy on one end and thick on the other qualifies as a wedge. If this is news to you, or if you thought wedge styling had its moment half a century ago and was then relegated to the margins of history, read this book.

Alfa Romeo: An Illustrated History, 1910–2020

by Christian Schön (editor)

As of April 2024 you can no longer order a gasoline-powered Alfa in the US. All the more reason to cast a wistful eye at the past with this book commemorating 110 years of history.

Mascots in Motion, Images and Stories of Automotive Aesthetics

by Steve Purdy

In spite of its title, the images are not exclusively motoring mascots as there are some body parts or trim pieces shot for the artfulness of the reflections that drew Purdy’s eye.

Car Posters

by Emmanuel Lopez

Whether your interests lie in illustrative art or in automobiles, this book will appeal. From the 1890s to the 1970s, cars—and things to do with them and things to put on and in them—have come a long way.

Bev Doolittle

by Elise Maclay

Can you tell from the cover why she’s called “the camouflage artist”? Look at her paintings, mostly watercolors of the American West, from a distance and you will see things hidden when they’re right under your nose.

Design & Desire

by Keith Helfet

A flat mountain top took such strong hold of young Helfet’s emotions that he felt moved to train as a designer—and found his calling, and a quarter-century gig at Jaguar. This book was originally intended as a private affair for only family and friends; thank goodness someone convinced him otherwise.

Duchamp, A Biography

by Calvin Tomkins

The guy who displayed a urinal at an art gallery opening? The righteous godfather of postmodernism in the visual arts? The quintessential enigmatic artist? Yep, it’s Marcel Duchamp and here’s his story!

Design Between the Lines

by Patrick le Quément, Stéphane Geffray

You’d have to have been sequestered on your private island for the last 50 years not to know the name of the author of this book. Simca, Ford, VW/Audi, Renault—some 60 million cars have Patrick le Quément’s fingerprints on them, and he reshaped his industry.

The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild

by John L. Jacobus

Conceived during the Great Depression as a philanthropic project by the Fisher family, the Guild became one of the largest and longest-running youth-oriented design activities ever. The Guildsmen’s 2023 Reunion will be their last ever, so this is the time to read their stories once more.

Imagine too! Towards the Future

by Patrick G. Kelley 

It’s rare enough that a concept car makes it into production but just think of how many drawings never even make it to the modeling stage. Worse, concept drawings are by definition throwaways and get tossed as soon as their “job” is done. Good thing someone is saving them!

Virginia Bader, A Collage of Memories of the First Lady of Aviation Art

by Jill Amadio

A pioneering force in aviation art, not as an artist but a dealer / gallerist, especially of prints signed by the artists and where possible, the pilots. Later, she was the first organizer of symposia that connected artists and their public.

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