Happy Failure
“At times Evel Knievel could seem like the world’s least successful suicide. One jump left him in a coma for a month. But the thrill of watching...
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“At times Evel Knievel could seem like the world’s least successful suicide. One jump left him in a coma for a month. But the thrill of watching him was more than just the voyeuristic delight in splintered metal and cracked bone; it was more than just witnessing a man fall. An Evel Knievel jump was the triumph of the unprepared and insubstantial, of everything that floats - dreams, fancies, caprices - against the gravitational drag, the endless quantifiable varieties, of the real, it was a case of heroic failure trumping mundane success.”
Happy Failure gathers together a collection of writings from art critic George Pendle, organized around a series of photographs of famed daredevil Evel Knievel.
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:188 pages
- Publication:2014
- Publisher:Karma
- Edition:First Edition
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:1938560167
- ISBN13:9781938560163
- kindle Asin:1938560167
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