| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations |
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Technicities |
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Technicities.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Luxuries -- Social aspects
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Luxury -- Social aspects
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
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Luxuries -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Armitage, John, 1956- editor.
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Roberts, Joanne, editor.
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| ISBN |
1474402623 |
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9781474404877 |
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1474404871 |
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9781474402620 |
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