Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media

ISBN-13: 9781474425827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str.

John Armitage; Joanne Roberts

Opis

John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. This volume gives you a technocultural focus on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studies.

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List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Series Editors’ Preface; Notes on Contributors; 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,Thomaï 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, Agnès Rocamora; Index.