The Italians Beautiful Machines

Author : gestalten,Robert Klanten,Gestalten,Bastian Fuhrmann
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 396704114X

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The Italians - Beautiful Machines by gestalten,Robert Klanten,Gestalten,Bastian Fuhrmann Pdf

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 : United States. Department of Commerce and Labor,Godfrey L. Carden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Machine-tools
ISBN : PRNC:32101043311941

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Machine Tool Trade in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, and United Kingdom by United States. Department of Commerce and Labor,Godfrey L. Carden Pdf

Author : Blake Z. Rong
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 3899559886

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Beautiful Machines by Blake Z. Rong Pdf

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 : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674242326

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The Italian Renaissance of Machines by Paolo Galluzzi Pdf

The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine. When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian peninsula was the stage of a no-less-impressive revival of technical knowledge and practice. In this rich and lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period, capturing the fusion of artistry and engineering that spurred some of the Renaissance’s greatest technological breakthroughs. Galluzzi traces the emergence of a new and important historical figure: the artist-engineer. In the medieval world, innovators remained anonymous. By the height of the fifteenth century, artist-engineers like Leonardo da Vinci were sought after by powerful patrons, generously remunerated, and exhibited in royal and noble courts. In an age that witnessed continuous wars, the robust expansion of trade and industry, and intense urbanization, these practitioners—with their multiple skills refined in the laboratory that was the Renaissance workshop—became catalysts for change. Renaissance masters were not only astoundingly creative but also championed a new concept of learning, characterized by observation, technical know-how, growing mathematical competence, and prowess at the draftsman’s table. The Italian Renaissance of Machines enriches our appreciation for Taccola, Giovanni Fontana, and other masters of the quattrocento and reveals how da Vinci’s ambitious achievements paved the way for Galileo’s revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.

Author : Joseph Matthews
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781629631318

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Everyone Has Their Reasons by Joseph Matthews Pdf

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 : Andreas Broeckmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262035064

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Machine Art in the Twentieth Century by Andreas Broeckmann Pdf

An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods. “Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's relationships with machines. In the course of his investigation, Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect art of different periods, looking for continuities that link works from the end of the century to developments in the 1950s and 1960s and to works by avant-garde artists in the 1910s and 1920s. An art historical perspective, he argues, might change our views of recent works that seem to be driven by new media technologies but that in fact continue a century-old artistic exploration. Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally, Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002795155C

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The Printing Machine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UCAL:$B475300

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Special Agents Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Seelye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024892807

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Beautiful Machine by John Seelye Pdf

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 : United States. Department of Commerce and Labor,Arthur B. Butman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Feeds
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU57058474

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Machine-tool Trade in Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Russia, and Netherlands by United States. Department of Commerce and Labor,Arthur B. Butman Pdf

Author : Joseph Pennell,Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Bicycle touring
ISBN : UGA:32108008548508

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An Italian Pilgrimage by Joseph Pennell,Elizabeth Robins Pennell Pdf

Author : Eric Dregni
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760375570

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The Scooter Bible by Eric Dregni Pdf

The Scooter Bible is an entertaining, colorful, and authoritative history of the little motorbikes that could. Beginning with the first motor scooter in 1902, Eric Dregni is your guide to everything from the postwar American scooter boom to the golden age of Italian and European scooters, the rise of Mod scooter culture in England . . . right up to modern electric scooters. Today, nostalgia for vintage Vespas, Piaggios, Cushmans, Lambrettas, and other top brands drive a new thirst for retro-inspired scooters in showrooms around the world. This revised and updated edition of The Scooter Bible brings the story up to date with the drive for zero emissions via electric vehicles. Throughout, author Eric Dregni offers you a wealth of imagery: historic black-and-white photos, evocative period advertisements, manufacturer photos, and more—over 500 images! Along the way, he also shows you scooter evolution, changing technologies, and scooter appearances in popular culture. And as the most comprehensive scooter book ever, The Scooter Bible also includes the world’s most exhaustive encyclopedia of scooter brands, from Puddlejumper to Piaggio, Ducati to Doodlebug, and Zündapp Bella to Genuine Stella. The Scooter Bible is all you need before kick-starting your scooter engine to life and praying for ever more speed. Indeed, scooters are mechanical marvels on two wheels. Streamlined spuds. Mutant oddballs of Jet Age styling gone berserk. Innovative inventions shoehorned like sardines into miniaturized monocoque bodies. Engineering and styling enigmas (the stranger the better). They are the weird and the wonderful. And they are all here in The Scooter Bible.

Author : Peter Englund,Peter Graves
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307739285

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The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund,Peter Graves Pdf

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

Author : Jess Walter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241963005

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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Pdf

The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. 'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New York Times 'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist 'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire

Author : Jane F. Babson
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015037451765

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The Epsteins by Jane F. Babson Pdf

Chatskel Barntovsky (1859-1941) emigrated in 1870 from Augustów, Poland, to New York and became Max Epstein in New York (An elder brother had immigrated earlier, and assumed his wife's surname of Epstein). Max married Mary Solomon in the 1870s. Among their children was Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), who studied art in France, became a British subject in 1911. Another of their children was Sylvia Epstein Press (1895-1980), a famous dress designer in New York City. Includes a major interpretive article about Sir Jacob Epstein and his sculpture by Jane F. Babson.