Critical luxury studies : art, design, media /
"Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distincitve and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical theorists John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led and media-related examination of the relations between historical and, cruciall...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Edinburgh, Scotland : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distincitve and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical theorists John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led and media-related examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury." |
Carrier Form: | xiv, 225 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781474402613 1474402615 |
Index Number: | HB841 |
CLC: | F014.5-05 |
Call Number: | F014.5-05/C934 |
Contents: | Critical luxury studies : defining a field / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts -- pt. I. Critical luxury studies. Knowing luxury : from socio-cultural value to market price? / Joanne Roberts and John Armitage -- Luxury : a dialectic of desire? / Christopher J. Berry -- The luxury duality : from economic fact to cultural capital / Ulrich Lehmann -- 'Life's little luxuries?' the social and spatial construction of luxury / Juliana Mansvelt, Mary Breheny and Iain Hay -- The object and art of luxury consumption / Mike Featherstone -- pt. II. Art, design, and media. Experiments in suchness : Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermes / Thomai Serdari -- Libeskind in Las Vegas : reflections on architecture as a luxury commodity / Adam Sharr -- Sartorial connoisseurship, the t-shirt and the interrogation of luxury / Jonathan Faiers -- Online luxury : geographies of production and consumption and the Louis Vuitton website / Agnes Rocamora. |