Critical luxury studies : art, design, media /

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 prese...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Armitage, John, 1956- (Editor), Roberts, Joanne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Series:Technicities.
Subjects:
Luxuries > Social aspects.
Luxury > Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
Produits de luxe > Aspect social.
Luxe > Aspect social.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects
Luxuries > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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