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Title: Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future by Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan, Katherine Chambers ISBN: 0-8018-5399-0 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very complete...
Comment: Most books about past visions of the future deal with cities of the future, robots of the future and houses (or should I say kitchens) of the future. And this book DOES deal with those subjects and MORE. Between the covers of this book are plans for atomic powered cars, tanks, and bombers, the promises found within hobby magazines, chapters on the movies and radio shows that showed us the future, the designs for bomb proof cities and homes, hopes for the flying car, the idea for death rays, flying tanks and much, much more.
Having been first published in 1984 it even hints at what visions we still believed in that would appear in our future, from the space shuttle to real laser weapons. Kind of fun but also kind of sad.
Rating: 5
Summary: They once built towers to the sky.....
Comment: Yesterday's Tomorrows is a great, evocative book.
Stemming from a traveling exhibit sponsored in Michigan by the Michigan Humanities Council, its retro-future images (comprised of period memorabilia, car designs, advertisements, and architectural wonders) are bountiful, crisply reproduced and accompanied by text that adds context to the visual journey.
And what a journey! Travel back to an anticipated future when modernism and futurism were part of the manifest destiny of humankind.
Employing an added bit of retrospective frisson, in the post 9/11 world, this mid-80s work now serves as a window on a future that would never be realized, of a time when people still dreamed of building towers to the sky. Thankfully, its unabashed message of near-limitless possibilities is conveyed utterly without irony.
This volume can be enjoyed on so many levels. Delight in the visual salience of images gathered from dozens of rare sources. Lavish your attention on the many literary influences and how these images would inspire a whole genre of science fiction and futurist works, from Buckminster Fuller to Gene Roddenberry to Alvin Toffler.
In this "shape of things to come," the future, our present, is always a golden destiny of exotic creative and technological evocations and innovations - even when the future is more dystopian than utopian.
It is a reminder that hope and vision, art and science, are intrinsic to the human condition and surely the salvation for our own, as yet unwritten, future.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a fun book!
Comment: The pictures are what I loved the most. The text explaining the museum exhibit give insight and history that lend the photos and illustrations more weight out of context. I enjoyed this book, as have people I've lent it to.
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Title: Future Perfect by Jim Heimann, Joe Heimann ISBN: 3822815667 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future by Norman Brosterman ISBN: 0810929392 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The New York WorldÂs Fair, 1939Â1940 by Richard Wurts, Stanley Appelbaum ISBN: 0486234940 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: See the World (Icons) by Jim Heimann, Various ISBN: 3822816264 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities: 1950-2050 by Roger D. Launius, Howard E. McCurdy, Ray Bradbury ISBN: 0811831159 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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