The art of the motorcycle / Guggenheim Museum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motorcycles--History--Exhibitions.

Motorcycles.

History.

Exhibitions.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

427 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Guggenheim Museum, [1998]

Summary:

Capturing the spirit of the motorcycle and the passion and excitement it has aroused, this book brings together 100 spectacular motorcycles from the first--the 1885 Daimler Einspur--through the latest in cutting-edge concept bikes. This book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 600 illustrations, 400 in color.

Contents:

Preface / Thomas Krens

Issues in the evolution of the motorcycle / Charles M. Falco

Cycles of paradox / Mark Taylor, José Márquez

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.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition The art of the motorcycle, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 26-September 12, 1998. The exhibition is made possible by BMW.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-426).

ISBN:

0810969122

0892072075

OCLC:

39697412