... soon became clear to the stylists that the debris of war could be recycled into the stuff of fantasy." The cockpit of an airplane could serve as the conceit for the car's instrument panel; air scoops could be dummied up to conjure the speeds that were then threatening to surpass the ... seat of a car." If one could wonder in these two rainy-scene car covers might have been photographed on the same clay, their immediate succession tips us off to the pervasiveness and the persuasiveness of the automobile as the conveyor of style in 1954. If man is, to Protagoras, the measure of ... Young L...

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