Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future
About this book
Flying cities...rocketships...monorails...robots...bubble-topped cars...these are the visions of a select group of American designers, illustrators, and artists who, from the 1890s to the mid-1960s, devoted their talents to portraying the future. In Out of Time�both the book and the accompanying traveling exhibition sponsored by SITES (the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)�Norman Brosterman gathers toghether the most exciting ideas of these forgotten heroes of "techno-futuristic" art.Many of these images were created as illustrations for science fiction, popular science, and pulp-fiction magazines, and as prototype drawings for industrial design. However, few of the original watercolors, oil paintings, and pen-and-ink drawings�which the author spent years tracking down�have ever been exhibited before. Norman Brosterman, the author of Abrams' acclaimed Inventing Kindergarten, here triumphs once again�with another daring intellectual foray into art history and popular culture.