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Critical Luxury Studies : Art, Design, Media / John Armitage, Joanne Roberts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Technicities : TECHPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) : 16 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrations 3 B/W tablesContent type:
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  • 9781474402613
  • 9781474402620
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Critical Luxury Studies: Defining a Field -- I Critical Luxury Studies -- Chapter 2 Knowing Luxury: From Socio-Cultural Value to Market Price? -- Chapter 3 Luxury: A Dialectic of Desire? -- Chapter 4 The Luxury Duality: From Economic Fact to Cultural Capital -- Chapter 5 'Life's Little Luxuries?' The Social and Spatial Construction of Luxury -- Chapter 6 The Object and Art of Luxury Consumption -- II Art, Design, Media -- Chapter 7 Experiments in Suchness: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermès -- Chapter 8 Libeskind in Las Vegas: Reflections on Architecture as a Luxury Commodity -- Chapter 9 Sartorial Connoisseurship, the T-shirt and the Interrogation of Luxury -- Chapter 10 Online Luxury: Geographies of Production and Consumption and the Louis Vuitton Website -- Index
Summary: A critical approach to contemporary luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studiesAssembling 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 IncludeHiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for HermèsThe plain white t-shirtLouis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH)ContributorsJohn ArmitageChristopher J. BerryMary BrehenyJonathan FaiersMike FeatherstoneIain HayUlrich LehmannJuliana MansveltAgnès RocamoraJoanne RobertsThomaï SerdariAdam Sharr
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Critical Luxury Studies: Defining a Field -- I Critical Luxury Studies -- Chapter 2 Knowing Luxury: From Socio-Cultural Value to Market Price? -- Chapter 3 Luxury: A Dialectic of Desire? -- Chapter 4 The Luxury Duality: From Economic Fact to Cultural Capital -- Chapter 5 'Life's Little Luxuries?' The Social and Spatial Construction of Luxury -- Chapter 6 The Object and Art of Luxury Consumption -- II Art, Design, Media -- Chapter 7 Experiments in Suchness: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermès -- Chapter 8 Libeskind in Las Vegas: Reflections on Architecture as a Luxury Commodity -- Chapter 9 Sartorial Connoisseurship, the T-shirt and the Interrogation of Luxury -- Chapter 10 Online Luxury: Geographies of Production and Consumption and the Louis Vuitton Website -- Index

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A critical approach to contemporary luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studiesAssembling 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 IncludeHiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for HermèsThe plain white t-shirtLouis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH)ContributorsJohn ArmitageChristopher J. BerryMary BrehenyJonathan FaiersMike FeatherstoneIain HayUlrich LehmannJuliana MansveltAgnès RocamoraJoanne RobertsThomaï SerdariAdam Sharr

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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