Death Drive: There are No Accidents

Name: Death Drive: There are No Accidents
Brand: Circa Press
SKU: 9780993072123
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Автор: Stephen Bayley

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Издател: Circa Press

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Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More em...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Stephen Bayley

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2015

страници

232

EAN

9780993072123

ISBN

0993072127

Enbook ID

09517536

Издател

Circa Press

Теглоt

732

Размери

221 x 169 x 26

Пълно описание

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.

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