Getting Behind the Object We Love the Most. Cars: Accelerating the Modern World (Museum Review)

Recounted through artifacts, primarily automobiles, but also photographs, video, text, and automobile related installations, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World presented a history of the automobile from its beginnings—a restored 1896 Benz—to an imagined future represented by a “flying car.” The exh...

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Link(s) zu Dokument(en):IHS Publikation
Hauptverfasser: Braun, Robert, Randell, Richard
Format: Article in Academic Journal PeerReviewed
Veröffentlicht: berghahn 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Recounted through artifacts, primarily automobiles, but also photographs, video, text, and automobile related installations, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World presented a history of the automobile from its beginnings—a restored 1896 Benz—to an imagined future represented by a “flying car.” The exhibition promised to help us navigate possible car futures based on what we can learn from the past.