50s Cars (Icons) [Paperback]

Jim Heimann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2003 | Series: Icons

Highlights from American automobile design of the 1950s.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Taschen (May 5, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3822816302
• ISBN-13: 978-3822816301
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,210,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fifties chrome., July 20, 2002

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This review is from: 50s Cars (Icons) (Paperback)

This is one of Taschen's inexpensive, all color, pictorial reference books, full of cars lifted from fifties ads and loosely organised in date order. It does include thirty or so complete ads. Now you will have a chance to study the photo-realist style of unknown commercial artists and see how they handled all that chrome. I think many of these paintings must have had two artists, one to do the precise detailing of the vehicle and another to handle the much more casual backgrounds and people. There are some photos included, by the late fifties paintings had given way to studio or location photography and I think a little bit of sparkle had been lost from the images.

As far as I can see most of these pictures have been lifted from the wonderful 925 page `All-American Ads 50s' by Jim Heimann, it has a 188 page chapter on car ads and here you get to read the copy as well.