Death Drive
There are No Accidents
$69.41
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2016
Summary
Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars than any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness, 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 im…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780993072123 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0993072127 |
| Author: | Stephen Bayley |
| Publisher: | Circa Press |
| Imprint: | Circa Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 160mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, curator and founding director of the influential Design Museum. Over the past thirty years his writing has changed the way the world thinks about design.
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