Titre : | Futuredays : A Nineteenth-Century Vision of the Year 2000 | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Isaac ASIMOV, Auteur ; Jean Marc COTÉ, Illustrateur | Editeur : | New York : Henry Holt | Année de publication : | 1986 | Importance : | 96 p. | Présentation : | Couv. ill. en coul.; ill. en coul. | Format : | 21 x 23 cm. | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8050-0120-4 | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | Catégories : | Archives 2 AR-P.ESPE
| Tags : | Transports Aériens Histoire Historique Patrimoine Aviation Aéronautique Avions Dessin Illustration | Index. décimale : | 708 Galerie, collections privées, musées des beaux-arts et des arts décoratifs | Résumé : | A set of postcards was printed around the turn of the twentieth century, depicting life as it was to be at the turn of the twenty-first. As happens with so many looks forward, some few predictions came true, many fell comically flat, and a huge number stopped far short of what the future would hold, even just a few years down the road. Famous futurist Isaac Asimov came across these cards, miraculously preserved, around 1985. He comments on fifty cards from that set, admiring whatever was accurate, gently noting where imagination came up short of reality, and respectfully noting how chancy the prediction business can be. One point pervading the set was that, however much the technology might advance in a hundred years, the artist felt that clothing styles had reached perfection in 1900, and that no change of materials or cultural norms would ever disentrench women's long skirts, elborate bodices, and complex hair styles - not even in underwater sports!
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Futuredays : A Nineteenth-Century Vision of the Year 2000 [texte imprimé] / Isaac ASIMOV, Auteur ; Jean Marc COTÉ, Illustrateur . - New York : Henry Holt, 1986 . - 96 p. : Couv. ill. en coul.; ill. en coul. ; 21 x 23 cm. ISBN : 978-0-8050-0120-4 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Catégories : | Archives 2 AR-P.ESPE
| Tags : | Transports Aériens Histoire Historique Patrimoine Aviation Aéronautique Avions Dessin Illustration | Index. décimale : | 708 Galerie, collections privées, musées des beaux-arts et des arts décoratifs | Résumé : | A set of postcards was printed around the turn of the twentieth century, depicting life as it was to be at the turn of the twenty-first. As happens with so many looks forward, some few predictions came true, many fell comically flat, and a huge number stopped far short of what the future would hold, even just a few years down the road. Famous futurist Isaac Asimov came across these cards, miraculously preserved, around 1985. He comments on fifty cards from that set, admiring whatever was accurate, gently noting where imagination came up short of reality, and respectfully noting how chancy the prediction business can be. One point pervading the set was that, however much the technology might advance in a hundred years, the artist felt that clothing styles had reached perfection in 1900, and that no change of materials or cultural norms would ever disentrench women's long skirts, elborate bodices, and complex hair styles - not even in underwater sports!
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