Autopia
Subtitle: cars and culture
By: edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr
Contributors: Wollen, Peter; Kerr, Joe, 1958-
Publisher: Reaktion
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Automobiles -- Social aspects
Description: "Autopia is not written by car buffs or technical enthusiasts - it consists of over 25 newly commissioned essays, as well as a number of reprinted key texts, by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, all of whom share a critical concern with the consequences of a century of driving. In Autopia the car is treated not as a technological fetish object nor as an instrument of danger. Instead it is examined as a hugely important determinant of twentieth-century culture, neither wholly good nor an unmitigated disaster, but certainly endlessly fascinating."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index