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BMW art cars

Title
BMW art cars / editor, Thomas Girst.
Publication
  • Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Girst, Thomas
Description
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 cm
Summary
"Twelve years after the first Benz patent motorcar Number 1 made its first journey in July 1886, a car raced across the image in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's lithograph, The Automobilist. La 628-E8, a novel named after the license plate number of its author, Octave Mirbeau, was published in the early twentieth century. In his Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti rated the beauty of a racecar's revving engine and speed higher than the aesthetics of the Nike of Samothrace. Ever since its invention, artists have been examining the automobile, and the BMW Art Cars have played a central role here. Alexander Calder's BMW 3.0 CSL from 1975 was the first in a series brought to life by Hervé Poulain, lover of auto racing and works of art, in collaboration with BMW's head of motorsports, Jochen Neerpasch. Seventeen artists have since designed BMW models, and the 'rolling sculptures' have not only proved themselves in museums, but also on the race track at Le Mans. Artists featured (selection): John Baldessari, Alexander Calder, Sandro Chia, Ken Done, Olafur Eliasson, Cao Fei, Ernst Fuchs, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Michael Jagamara Nelson, Matazo Kayama, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Esther Mahlangu, César Manrique, A.R.Penck, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol"--Publisher's website.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JQF 19-670
ISBN
  • 9783775744829
  • 3775744827
LCCN
9783775744829
OCLC
  • 1089131197
  • 1089131197
Title
BMW art cars / editor, Thomas Girst.
Publisher
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
New extended edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Girst, Thomas, editor.
Other Standard Identifier
9783775744829
Research Call Number
JQF 19-670
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