Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The art of the motorcycle
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Guggenheim Museum
Place
Date
1998
Physical Description
427 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
ISBN/ISSN
0810969122
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Preface / Thomas Krens -- Issues in the evolution of the motorcycle / Charles M. Falco -- Cycles of paradox / Mark Taylor, JosΘ Mßrquez -- Song of the sausage creature / Hunter S. Thompson -- The art of the motorcycle: Outlaws, animals, and sex machines / Ted Polhemus -- Bikes were always work for me / Dennis Hopper -- Freedom of death: Notes on the motorcycle in film and video / Art Simon -- Bosozoku (motorcycle gangs) / Ikuya Sato -- To the edge: Motorcycles and danger / Melissa Holbrook Pierson -- Inventing the motorcycle: 1868-1919 / Vanessa Rocco -- The machine age: 1922-1929 / Matthew Drutt -- New world orders: 1930-1944 / Matthew Drutt -- Freedom and postwar mobility: 1946-1958 / Greg Jordan -- Popular culture/counterculture: 1960-1969 / Greg Jordan - - Getting aaway from it all: 1969-1978 / Sarah Botts -- The consumer years: 1982-1989 / Sarah Botts -- Retro/revolutionary: 1993-1998 / Ultan Guilfoyle -- Bibliography / Charles M. Falco.
Public Access Text
Published in conjunction with the exhibition The art of the motorcycle, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 26-September 12, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-426).
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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