Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1911422502
ISBN-13
9781911422501
Edition
2 New edition
Publisher
Circa Press
Imprint
Circa Press
Country of Manufacture
HK
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 13th, 2026
Print length
256 Pages
Product Classification:
Photographic reportageRoad & motor vehicles: general interest
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New edition of Stephen Bayley’s classic text (a Times Book of the Year, 2016) on the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination. His exploration of the circumstances of 24 celebrity car crashes is now expanded with two further essays - on Princess Diana and Ayrton Senna.
New edition of Stephen Bayley''s classic text - a Times Book of the Year, 2016
Expanded to include the tragic stories of Princess Diana and Ayrton Senna
Softback edition with deluxe binding - perfect as a gift
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 24 celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004. The author concludes by confronting the imminent demise of the car itself.
Expanded to include the tragic stories of Princess Diana and Ayrton Senna
Softback edition with deluxe binding - perfect as a gift
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 24 celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004. The author concludes by confronting the imminent demise of the car itself.
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