Volume 32, Number 17 · November 7, 1985
Body Building
By Reyner Banham
Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean Bugatti
by Philip Dejean, edited by Nadine Coleno, by Uwe Hucke
Rizzoli International Publications (published 1983; out of print), 359 pp., $50.00
The Amazing Bugattis
by Malcolm Haslam, by Philippe Garner, by Mary Harvey, by Hugh Conway
Design Council Books (London), 84 pp., £5 (paper)
It was to be a fateful ride for Isadora Duncan, and it remains tempting to see it as perhaps a destined ride as well, so apt was her death by the instrumentality of a painted scarf with one end around her neck and the other caught in the rear wheel of a car designed and built by Ettore Arco Isadoro Bugatti. The fatedness was no matter of names or horoscopes, however; it was more to do with the spirit of the times, even the history of art.
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