AIRCRAFT (En papel)

DAVID PASCOE, REAKTION BOOKS, 2003
ISBN 9781861891631

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Datos del libro

Nº de páginas: 208 págs.
Editorial: REAKTION BOOKS
Lengua: INGLÉS
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
ISBN: 9781861891631
Año edicón: 2003
Plaza de edición: LONDON

Sinopsis

In his celebrated manifesto, "Aircraft" (1935), the architect Le Corbusier presented more than 100 photographs celebrating airplanes either in imperious flight or elegantly at rest. Dwelling on the artfully abstracted shapes of noses, wings, and tails, he declared: "Ponder a moment on the truth of these objects Clearness of function "
In "Aircraft," David Pascoe follows this lead and offers a startling new account of the form of the airplane, an object that, in the course of a hundred years, has developed from a flimsy contraption of wood, wire and canvas into a machine compounded of exotic materials whose wings can touch the edges of space.
Tracing the airplane through the twentieth century, he considers the subject from a number of perspectives: as an inspiration for artists, architects and politicians; as a miracle of engineering; as a product of industrialized culture; as a device of military ambition; and, finally, in its clearness of function, as an instance of sublime technology.
Profusely illustrated and authoritatively written, "Aircraft" offers not just a fresh account of aeronautical design, documenting, in particular, the forms of earlier flying machines and the dependence of later projects upon them, but also provides a cultural history of an object whose very shape contains the dreams and nightmares of the modern age.