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.<\/p>\n
The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive<\/em><\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.
6 Foreword
\n10 Death Drive
\n30 Isadora Duncan
\n40 Jean Bugatti
\n50 Nathanael West
\n60 General George S Patton
\n70 James Dean
\n80 Jackson Pollock
\n90 Dennis Brain
\n96 Mike Hawthorn
\n106 Albert Camus
\n118 Eddie Cochran
\n126 Prince Aly Khan
\n134 Ernie Kovacs
\n142 Porfirio Rubirosa
\n152 Giuseppe Farina
\n162 Tara Browne
\n170 Jayne Mansfield
\n182 Marc Bolan
\n192 Mike Hailwood
\n202 Princess Grace of Monaco
\n212 Aldo Rossi
\n218 Ayrton Senna
\n226 Princess Diana
\n232 Helmut Newton
\n240 The Age of Combustion
\n252 Index
\n254 Credits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5525],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53611","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-photography","7":"author-by-author-stephen-bayley","8":"publisher-circa-press","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n