Adalbert Gregor Schmidt Versandantiquariat & Verlag

Künstler: Alexander Calder 1975 / Frank Stella 1976. /Roy Lichtenstein 1977. / Andy Warhol 1979. / Ernst Fuchs 1982. / Robert Rauschenberg 1986. / Ken Done 1989. / Michael Jagamara Nelson 1989. / Cesar Manrique 1990. / A.R. Penck 1991. / Matazo Kayama 1990.

Klappentext: In 1986, on the 100th birthday of the automobile, the DaimlerChrysler enterprise commissioned the pop art icon Andy Warhol to do a series of 80 car pictures which were to document the history of the automobile from 1886 to the present. Using 20 selected Mercedes models - including the Daimler motor coach and the Benz patent motor wagon - 35 pictures and 12 large-format paintings were executed in 1986/87, becoming the last series produced by the artist. The large-format picture book at hand presents the works in total and, with other commissioned works, further explores the many-faceted subject of -Business Art-. The works include a co- operation between Robert Longo and DaimlerChrysler that yielded a series of black-and-white portraits of Mercedes Benz models. With her signature watercolors of persons and products from the enterprise, Simone Westerwinter created a radically new form of -portrait-. Mathis Neidhart is working at a dialectic approach of conveying the brand-name philosophy of DaimlerChrysler with art- specific questions. An essay about the relationship between the -business artists- Andy Warhol and Truman Capote as well as interviews with artists included in the collection such as John M Armleder, Peter Halley, Robert Longo and Sarah Morris serve to expand on the subject matter of the book.

Verlags-Beschreibung: ..... Zum Doppeljubiläum – 75 Jahre und 20. Neuauflage der traditionsreichsten Rallye Deutschlands - hat ein erfahrenes Autorenteam zahlreiche Beiträge zur deutschen -Mille Miglia - zusammengetragen. Das Buch lebt von den vielen historischen bis hin zu ganz aktuellen Fotos rund um die Veranstaltung, die Teilnehmer, die Organisation und die Fahrzeuge. Dazu gehören Fahrberichte ebenso wie die Vorstellung außergewöhnlicher Teilnehmer und ihrer Fahrzeuge sowie Streckenabschnitte der vergangenen Rennen.