\"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," Roland Barthes famously said. "I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object." For evidence of this dictum, one need look no further than Cars , the 1986-87 series of silkscreen prints and paintings that Andy Warhol (1928-1987) executed at the behest of Mercedes-Benz in honor of the ...
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\"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," Roland Barthes famously said. "I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object." For evidence of this dictum, one need look no further than Cars , the 1986-87 series of silkscreen prints and paintings that Andy Warhol (1928-1987) executed at the behest of Mercedes-Benz in honor of the esteemed German automaker's centenary. This volume of the same name collects Warhol's silkscreens together with the work of three other artists featuring Mercedes-Benz automobiles: drawings and airbrush paintings by Robert Longo (born 1953), videos by Sylvie Fleury (born 1961) and Vincent Szarek (born 1973), who takes design elements from the Mercedes-Benz SLR as the starting point for the sculptures depicted here.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany. 2010. 248 pgs. Illustrated. Text in German and English. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The car has been one of the icons of capitalist society and the development of industry in the 20th century, associated with the values of success, speed and progress. This volume includes works from the Daimier Art Collection by four great artists (Warhol, Longo, Sylvie Fleury and Vicent Szarek) in which the representation of the automobile and its parts acquire museum value. The excellent essays included in this edition respond to and question the different meanings and meanings that these artists bring to this unique means of transportation.; 248 X 24 X 285 millimeters; 248 pages.
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New. 3775725822. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in German and English. 248 pages; 123 illus. --with a bonus offer--
