Critical luxury studies: art, media, design
Critical luxury studies: art, media, design
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 Hermès, The plain white t-shirt and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH).
9781474402613
Edinburgh University Press
Armitage, John
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Roberts, Joanne
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April 2016
Armitage, John
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Roberts, Joanne
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Armitage, John and Roberts, Joanne
(eds.)
(2016)
Critical luxury studies: art, media, design
,
Edinburgh, GB.
Edinburgh University Press, 242pp.
Abstract
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 Hermès, The plain white t-shirt and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH).
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Submitted date: 12 September 2015
Accepted/In Press date: 23 September 2015
Published date: April 2016
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Contributors: John Armitage, Christopher J. Berry, Juliana Mansvelt, Agnès Rocamora, Joanne Roberts, Thomaï Serdari and Adam Sharr.
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Winchester School of Art
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Local EPrints ID: 382085
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/382085
ISBN: 9781474402613
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