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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781426202902
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more
visitors than any other museum in the world—90,000 a day in the
summertime—and the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this
unique companion volume combines arresting, colorful art, rare
archival material, and a unique approach to aeronautical history.
The posters—most of them never before published—feature
barnstormers, gliders, and flying boats, the earliest passenger
flights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and much
more. Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular art
and the commerce of their eras, with both explored in the
entertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air and
Space Museum curator. From 19th-century circus impresarios offering
rides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-century
airliners, the posters provide a fascinating illustrated history of
flight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only by
visionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets and
frequent flyers—no longer extraordinary, perhaps, but still echoing
with the exhilarating thrill and glamorous excitement captured
here.
Countless visitors to the museum’s traveling poster exhibition
and the permanent exhibition “America by Air” will delight in the
gorgeous and wonderful graphics collected in this appealing,
affordable book—and so will aviation buffs, armchair travelers, and
poster connoisseurs everywhere.
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