The art of the motorcycle / Guggenheim Museum.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Guggenheim Museum, [1998]
Description
427 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

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    Notes
    Published in conjunction with the exhibition The art of the motorcycle, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 26-September 12, 1998. The exhibition is made possible by BMW.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-426).
    Contents
    • Preface / Thomas Krens
    • Issues in the evolution of the motorcycle / Charles M. Falco
    • Cycles of paradox / Mark Taylor, José Márquez
    • Song of the sausage creature / Hunter S. Thompson
    • The art of the motorcycle: Outlaws, animals, and sex machines / Ted Polhemus
    • Bikes were always work for me / Dennis Hopper
    • Freedom of death: Notes on the motorcycle in film and video / Art Simon
    • Bosozoku (motorcycle gangs) / Ikuya Sato
    • To the edge: Motorcycles and danger / Melissa Holbrook Pierson
    • Inventing the motorcycle: 1868-1919 / Vanessa Rocco
    • The machine age: 1922-1929 / Matthew Drutt
    • New world orders: 1930-1944 / Matthew Drutt
    • Freedom and postwar mobility: 1946-1958 / Greg Jordan
    • Popular culture/counterculture: 1960-1969 / Greg Jordan
    • Getting aaway from it all: 1969-1978 / Sarah Botts
    • The consumer years: 1982-1989 / Sarah Botts
    • Retro/revolutionary: 1993-1998 / Ultan Guilfoyle
    • Bibliography / Charles M. Falco.
    ISBN
    • 0810969122
    • 9780810969124
    • 0892072075 ((pbk.))
    • 9780892072071 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    98219039
    OCLC
    39697412
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