[PDF] The Italians Beautiful Machines eBook

Author : gestalten
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783967041149

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Italy is the homeland of "La Bella Macchina" and the cradle of automotive culture. This book celebrates the most iconic cars and visionary designers from the peninsula. Italy is the homeland of "La Bella Macchina" and the cradle of automotive culture. This book celebrates the most iconic cars and visionary designers from the peninsula. This stunningly illustrated book takes readers on a journey through the history of Italian automotive design, showcasing some of the most iconic and beloved models from the 1920s to the early 2000s. Delving deep into the craftsmanship and artistry of vintage automobiles, this book explores how Italian car design has been at the center of technology, culture, and creativity--and how Italian designers like Pininfarina, Zagato, Bertone, Giugiaro, Gandini, and Ghia have influenced international car designs and brands. With striking archival and contemporary images, The Italians reveals the fascinating stories behind some of the most famous cars from Italy and what makes them so desirable. This book uses the lens of automotive design to chart the evolution of culture over the last 100 years. The Italians is an impactful celebration of Italian car design and its lasting influence on design and culture.

Author : Blake Z. Rong
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783899559880

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Start your engines for a grand tour of the most stylish grand motoring automobiles ever created. Evoking an era when elegance, romance, and outright performance defined the automobile--and the fascinating stories that made them icons of the road. From the shark-inspired Maserati Ghibli to the fiery Lamborghini Miura, from European elegance with American firepower such as the Iso Grifo and Facel Vega to the groundbreaking designs of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and Renault Alpine and the advanced technology behind the Jensen FF or Porsche 918 Spyder--these cars are less transportation and more testaments to beauty, freedom, ambition, innovation, and speed. Beautiful Machines was conceived and edited by gestalten. The stories are written by automobile expert Blake Z. Rong with a preface by Classic Driver's Jan Baedeker and gestalten's Robert Klanten.

Author : Paolo Galluzzi
Publisher :
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2020-01-04
Category : Art and technology
ISBN : 0674984390

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The Renaissance was a rebirth of art and literature--and of machines. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period featuring Taccola's and da Vinci's fusion of artistry and engineering and new concepts of learning that enabled Galileo's revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.

Author : Katia Pizzi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1526121220

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This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy of modernity and international circulation and a living symbol of past crafts and technologies. Exploring literature, the visual and performing arts, photography, music and film, the book uses the lens of European machine culture to elucidate the work of a broad set of artists and practitioners, including Censi, Depero, Marinetti, Munari and Prampolini. The machine emerges here as an archaeology of technology in modernity: the time machine of futurism.

Author : John Seelye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :

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The second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, Beautiful Machine explores a critical, transitional period in American history, taking as its starting point the French and Indian War -- the event that determined domination of North America by an Anglo-American presence -- and ending with the opening of the Erie Canal -- the event that determined the geopolitical alignment that would guarantee a northeastern hegemony as the new nation moved West. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson figure prominently as visionaries, who saw American rivers as agents of national unity with the promise of linking Virginia's Potomac to the wealth of the Ohio Valley. - Jacket flap.

Author : Etienne Psaila
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2023-11-24
Category :
ISBN :

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Embark on a Journey of Passion and Precision Get ready to immerse yourself in the allure of 'The Italian Dream Machines: Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Lamborghini.' This captivating compilation takes you on an unforgettable journey through the rich histories of three of Italy's most iconic automobile manufacturers. Explore the elegance and innovation of Alfa Romeo, a brand that has set the standard for style and performance for over a century. Dive into the thrilling world of Ferrari, where racing pedigree and engineering excellence unite to create automotive masterpieces. And experience the sheer power and luxury of Lamborghini, where every car is a work of art and a force to be reckoned with. Within these pages, you'll discover the fascinating stories behind these legendary marques, accompanied by a breathtaking collection of photographs that showcase the sheer beauty and engineering prowess of these dream machines. Whether you're a dedicated enthusiast, a history buff, or simply someone who appreciates the finer things in life, 'The Italian Dream Machines' is your ticket to the heart of Italian automotive excellence. Join us on this extraordinary journey and witness the legacy of passion, precision, and performance that defines Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, and Lamborghini.

Author : Joseph Matthews
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1629631310

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On November 7, 1938, a small, slight seventeen-year-old Polish-German Jew named Herschel Grynszpan entered the German embassy in Paris and shot dead a consular official. Three days later, in supposed response, Jews across Germany were beaten, imprisoned, and killed, their homes, shops, and synagogues smashed and burned—Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Based on the historical record and told through his “letters” from German prisons, the novel begins in 1936, when fifteen-year-old Herschel flees Germany. Penniless and alone, he makes it to Paris where he lives hand-to-mouth, his shadow existence mixing him with the starving and the wealthy, with hustlers, radicals, and seamy sides of Paris nightlife. In 1938, the French state rejects refugee status for Herschel and orders him out of the country. With nowhere to go, and now sought by the police, he slips underground in immigrant east Paris. Soon after, the Nazis round up all Polish Jews in Germany—including Herschel’s family—and dump them on the Poland border. Herschel’s response is to shoot the German official, then wait calmly for the French police. June 1940, Herschel is still in prison awaiting trial when the Nazi army nears Paris. He is evacuated south to another jail but escapes into the countryside amid the chaos of millions of French fleeing the invasion. After an incredible month alone on the road, Herschel seeks protection at a prison in the far south of France. Two weeks later the French state hands him to the Gestapo. The Nazis plan a big show trial, inviting the world press to Berlin for the spectacle, to demonstrate through Herschel that Jews had provoked the war. Except that Herschel throws a last-minute wrench in the plans, bringing the Nazi propaganda machine to a grinding halt. Hitler himself postpones the trial and orders that no decision be made about Herschel’s fate until the Führer personally gives an order—one way or another.

Author : Matt Stone
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2010-11-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1610601114

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No other Hollywood star has been so closely linked with cars and bikes, from the 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback he drove in Bullitt (in the greatest car chase of all time) to the Triumph motorcycle of The Great Escape. McQueen’s Machines gives readers a close-up look at the cars and motorcycles McQueen drove in movies, those he owned, and others he raced. With a foreword by Steve’s son, Chad McQueen, and a wealth of details about of the star’s racing career, stunt work, and car and motorcycle collecting, McQueen’s Machines draws a fascinating picture of one outsized man’s driving passion. Now in paperback.