Critical luxury studies : art, design, media / edited by John Armitage and Joanne Roberts.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations

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Technicities [More in this series]
Summary note
A critical approach to contemporary luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studies. Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distinctive, 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. Critical Luxury Studies offers a technoculturally inspired survey of the mediated arts and design, as well as a means of comprehending the socio-economic order with novel philosophical tools and critical methods of interrogation that are re-defining the concept of luxury in the twenty-first century. Case Studies Include. Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Herm÷s The plain white t-shirt Louis Vuitton Moñt Hennessy (LMVH) Contributors. John Armitage Christopher J. Berry Mary Breheny Jonathan Faiers Mike Featherstone Iain Hay Ulrich Lehmann Juliana Mansvelt Agn÷s Rocamora Joanne Roberts Thomaï Serdari Adam Sharr
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version record.
Contents
  • Critical luxury studies : defining a field / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts
  • 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
  • Experiments in suchness : Hiroshi Sugimoto's silk shiki for Hermès / 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.
ISBN
  • 1474402623 ((webready PDF))
  • 9781474404877 ((epub))
  • 1474404871 ((epub))
  • 9781474402620 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
963583915
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