The Legend of the Skies: Images & Objects from the World of Aviation Pascal Ory

Description: "The Legend of the Skies, Images and Objects from the World of Aviation" Text by Pascal Ory, Translated from French by Barry Tulett. ISBN 2905292407. Few signs of use to pages except one small corner bend. Minor shelf/handling wear to cover and dust jacket with slight scuffing to dj and light discolored area on back of dj. OCR: Well before the aeroplane first wrested itselffrom the clutches of gravity, it had flown in man'simagination, from the sketches of Leonardo daVinci to the novels of Jules Verne. And no soonerdid the dream of flying materialise than theaeroplane became an object of veneration, with itsfetishes, its totems and its icons.This album is a compendium of a century ofaviation in France, a stroll round a picture galleryof popular prints, caricatures, cartoons, adver-tisements, scale models, movie stills and paintingsby renowned masters. A rich array, with figureslike Mermoz, Guynemer and Hélène Boucher. Bé-cassine and Laverdure, real or fictitious heroes ofan aerial mythology caught up in a vertiginous bal-let of biplanes and seaplanes, fighters and jets ...We also loop a few audacious loops of our own,writing in the sky words such as «love», «humour»and «exoticism». Immortalised in popular songs,celebrated by great artists from Dali to Sonia andRobert Delaunay, magnified by the cinema, here atlast is the "chanson de geste" of those magnificentmen in their flying machines. Pascal Ory was born in 1948. He has a teaching de-gree in history and a doctorate in literature, and haswritten several books on the political and culturalhistory of modern France. He had realised this bookwith the support of SNECMA.

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