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Automobile Styling: From Evolution to Fashion by [Pittenger, Donald]

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by Donald Pittenger (Author)

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Does the general appearance of automobiles evolve over time, or are changes more matters of fashion than direction?

This book asserts that the design of American cars went through two evolutionary phases. The first was in the early years when inventors were figuring out how best to configure automobiles; this phase was completed by about 1920. The second period of evolution lasted from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, when separate components such as headlamps, fenders, running boards and other items became blended into partly-streamlined unitary or "envelope" body shapes. Since then, it is asserted that there has been no evolutionary thrust for automobile design. Various styles come, go, and sometimes return, partly affected by external influences related mostly to technological changes and government regulations.

This book focuses on the period from the mid-1920s, another era with little sense of design direction, through the evolutionary and post-evolutionary periods just mentioned. The text is written around a large number of pictures of automobiles selected to demonstrate the thesis just outlined. Background information and design critiques are included to provide the reader an understanding as to why various cars looked the way they did.

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File Size: 19410 KB
Print Length: 206 pages
Publication Date: January 29, 2013
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00B7RYMBI
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,721,716 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #345 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Engineering & Transportation > Automotive > History
- #1207 in Books > Arts & Photography > Decorative Arts & Design > Industrial & Product Design
- #2779 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Automotive > History

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This is a book to read and reread for anyone trying to make sense of auto styling.

ByAmazon Customeron June 5, 2016

Format: Kindle Edition

This is just the kind of book that appeals to me, and, I would think, a lot of other people. I recommend this book as one of the best values at Amazon. The writer takes auto styling from just a jumble of parts to the sleek styling of the 1949 Ford which, he says, set the standard of modern day autos. (I would have thrown in the 1949 Plymouth, but would have been wrong!!!) This author has a lot of insight and knowledge- I will be rereading this book.

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