Images
from the early years - human beings flying through space.
01 from SIMPL-BUCHER, Das Geschaft,
published by the German satirical satirical magazine in Munich, undated
c 1928.drawing by F.Schilling and commenting upon the contemporary practice
of sportsmen's instant autobiographies.
02 typical of Punch to absorb the impact of motorised speed by loading
it on Hunting, the most consistent and characteristic of its imagery during
the period. "The Chase of the Future" unsigned, Punch
December 12th 1906, p.427, 15 x 17cms
03 from SIMPL-BUCHER, Das Geschaft, published by the
German satirical satirical magazine in Munich, undated c 1928.drawing
by F.Schilling.
see
Clive Hart, The Prehistory of Flight, University of California
Press, berkeley/Los Angeles, 1985
Robert Wohl, A Passion for Wings, Aviation and the Western Imagination,
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994.
|
