The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

by Ned O'Gorman

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022631023X
• ISBN13: 9780226310237
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"