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Title: Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future by Norman Brosterman ISBN: 0-8109-2939-2 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Welcome to the FUTURE!
Comment: This ia a great book, for science fiction fans or just people interested in future forecasting of the 20th century. The book deals with the ideas, serious or not, of what past artists, scientists and writers thought the future would look like. Cities, cars, airships, rockets, monorails fill the pages of this book, with text which guides you on your tour of the 'future'. Some designs like the floating airports, the car/boat and the monorail HAVE changed reality (for some of us),while other ideas, like the six mile high tower, are not yet available.
My problem, my ONLY problem, with the book is how small it is. At 96 pages it barely covers anything. The chapter on robots is only TWO pages long and only has TWO illustrations. I noticed only ONE underwater city and some drawings, like a few pages on the 'Future City' have no text at all.
Still, it is a great gift for sci-fi fans, future engineers or fans of the cartoon series "Futurama".
Rating: 5
Summary: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future
Comment: Published in conjunction with the Fall 2000 exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, this volume contains color reproductions of original vintage artworks created to illustrate magazine stories or books. Focusing on the enthusiastic embrace of a particular 20th-century spirit, they form a visual archaeology of industrial and architectural design for the world to come, a historical exploration of the not yet known and the soon to arrive, and a stage for the visionary theater of vintage science fiction and futuristic speculation.
Rating: 3
Summary: Where's the rest of the book?!
Comment: This was my first reaction upon opening the parcel containing this book. Truly, it is a wonderful book; chock full of colourful illustrations and lively text. As such, it is a keeper.
Alas, it simply isn't enough! At 96 pages it is barely longer than a two part magazine article.
Where, for example, are the futuristic designs for the 1939 World's Fair? Or the 1962 World's Fair? Or the 1964 World's Fair?
Where are the designs for seminal 50's sci-fi movies like 'Forbidden Planet'?
Where are the concept drawings for Disneyland's Tomorrowland and Epcot Center?
Where are the space age clothing designs of Rudi Gernreich? Where are'The Jetsons'for crying out loud?
Wherever they are, they are not to be found in the pages of this book. Never has a book created within me such a mixture of delight and colossal disappointment.
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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: Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future by Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan, Katherine Chambers ISBN: 0801853990 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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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: 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: 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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