Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media
John Armitage, Joanne Roberts
A critical approach to contemporary luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studies
Case Studies Include
Contributors
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 Hermès
- The plain white t-shirt
- Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH)
Contributors
- John Armitage
- Christopher J. Berry
- Mary Breheny
- Jonathan Faiers
- Mike Featherstone
- Iain Hay
- Ulrich Lehmann
- Juliana Mansvelt
- Agnès Rocamora
- Joanne Roberts
- Thomaï Serdari
- Adam Sharr
Ano:
2016
Editora:
Edinburgh University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
242
ISBN 10:
1474402623
ISBN 13:
9781474402620
Arquivo:
PDF, 2.39 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016