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DEATH DRIVE: THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS
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| By: |
Stephen Bayley |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£29.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0993072127 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780993072123 |
| Publisher: |
CIRCA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2015 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of twenty celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004. |
| Synopsis: |
Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars and car design than in any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness and cultural modelling. But when all this perverse promise ends in catastrophe, these same talismanic qualities acquire an extra dimension. The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of twenty celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac CRX, in 2004. En route the narrative traces one very big arc - the role of the car in extending or creating the personality of a celebrity - and concludes by confronting the imminent death of the car itself. |
| Illustrations: |
72 colour |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Circa Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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