Taxi Meets Art

01.09.17 / News / Author: Martin
Tags: auto & moto

It is safe to say that since its inception city taxi was an essential attribute of the art of xx century. Shall not take into account the numerous popular songs, which exploit the image of the taxi, but even if we look only to the works of literature and films, we can think of many episodes involving hired crews. If at the end of the nineteenth, is now the last century Conan Doyle referred to the their stories about Holmes cabs, carts, and only later – cars, starting at least from the 20th annual fee is increasingly present in books and on the big screen. Elegant cars of those years a great way fit into the black and white picture, emphasizing benefits of fine ladies and gentlemen of the prewar era. Mention of a taxi in the famous novel by Ilf and Petrov's The Golden Calf has become a textbook. The image of the naive driver "Antelope-Gnu is not only fond of all the readers of the epic adventures of the great schemer, but he went into all the film adaptation of the book. Product literature, in this case reflected the actual events the 20th's: rally Moscow- – took place in the actual events and the tragedy of Adam in connection with the arrival in Moscow, brand new black taxicabs Renaud to a tee transfers, how unusual was the very idea of a taxi in the capital by mid- twenties. From the same Soviet satirists can build a bridge across the ocean in " America." In the same book they told about the world of American roads, which was still only beginning to become a full-fledged Highway. .