Death Drive
Circa Press (Verlag)
978-1-911422-50-1 (ISBN)
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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.
Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, curator and founding director of the influential Design Museum. Over the past 40 years his writing has changed the way the world thinks about design. Tom Wolfe on Stephen Bayley: "I don’t know anybody with more interesting observations about style, taste and contemporary design". What the critics said about the first edition: "Reading this book, one quickly gets accustomed to superb writing. Words cascade forth in perfect pitch and harmony on page after glorious page." — Gerard DeGroot, The Times "Death Drive is a must for petrol-heads. The range of cultural cross-reference and automotive detail is positively epicurean." — Jay Merrick, The Independent "Akin to Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, Death Drive is an autoerotic Babylon that never ends well." — Ray Edgar, The Age, 3 June 2016 "Albert Camus once remarked that there’s 'nothing more absurd than to die in a car accident'. That was before his car hit a tree at 80mph. Death Drive – a compendium of stories about famous people killed stupidly in cars – oozes absurdity. Stephen Bayley recounts delightfully grotesque tales about celebrities done in by trees, by lamp posts, or by nonentities in ancient Chevys. A design masterpiece, this book combines exquisite prose with stylish presentation – the cars are described more lovingly than the people who perished in them. Like a Bugatti, Death Drive recalls a time when books and cars were beautiful." — The Times, Books of the Year, 26 November 2016
6 Foreword
10 Death Drive
30 Isadora Duncan
40 Jean Bugatti
50 Nathanael West
60 General George S Patton
70 James Dean
80 Jackson Pollock
90 Dennis Brain
96 Mike Hawthorn
106 Albert Camus
118 Eddie Cochran
126 Prince Aly Khan
134 Ernie Kovacs
142 Porfirio Rubirosa
152 Giuseppe Farina
162 Tara Browne
170 Jayne Mansfield
182 Marc Bolan
192 Mike Hailwood
202 Princess Grace of Monaco
212 Aldo Rossi
218 Ayrton Senna
226 Princess Diana
232 Helmut Newton
240 The Age of Combustion
252 Index
254 Credits
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 50 Illustrations, black and white; 30 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-911422-50-2 / 1911422502 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-911422-50-1 / 9781911422501 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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