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Softcover. Condition: New. Color pictorial glued wraps. 319 pp., profusely illustrated with over 400 color and bw plates and illustrations. Contents as follows: Forewords / Pontus Hulten, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu -- The automobile in art / Gerald Silk. First visions ; Invention and celebration ; Proliferation and assimilation ; Reality and beyond the real ; Cultural reconstruction, explosion, and reflection -- Hot rods and customs / Henry Flood Robert, Jr. Go or show ; In pursuit of speed ; Customs : wild or mild -- American automobile design / Strother MacMinn. From custom coachbuilding to mass production design ; The streamlined decade to the fabulous fifties ; A new sense of style -- Automobile design on the continent / Angelo Tito Anselmi. Toward the culture of the automobile ; The functional automobile ; The specialization of the automobile. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-309) and index.