Iconoclastic Imagination
Subtitle: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226310237
Subjects: Kennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963, assassination; Challenger (spacecraft); Social perception; Liberalism; Iconoclasm; Disasters; September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
Description: Bloody, fiery spectacles - the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination - have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the 'where were you when' question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. But why are these spectacles so packed with meaning? In 'The Iconoclastic Imagination', Ned O'Gorman approaches each of these moments as an image of icon-destruction that give us distinct ways to imagine social existence in American life.