Critical Luxury Studies : : Art, Design, Media / / John Armitage, Joanne Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Armitage, John,; Roberts, Joanne,
• MitwirkendeR: Armitage, John,; Berry, Christopher J.,; Breheny, Mary,; Faiers, Jonathan,; Featherstone, Mike,; Hay, Iain,; Lehmann, Ulrich,; Mansvelt, Juliana,; Roberts, Joanne,; Rocamora, Agnès,; Serdari, Thomaï,; Sharr, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Technicities : TECH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrations 3 B/W tables

A critical approach to contemporary luxury studies focusing on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studiesAssembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distinctive, and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical theorists John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Series Editors' Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1 Critical Luxury Studies: Defining a Field
• I Critical Luxury Studies
• Chapter 2 Knowing Luxury: From Socio-Cultural Value to Market Price?
• Chapter 3 Luxury: A Dialectic of Desire?
• Chapter 4 The Luxury Duality: From Economic Fact to Cultural Capital
• Chapter 5 'Life's Little Luxuries?' The Social and Spatial Construction of Luxury
• Chapter 6 The Object and Art of Luxury Consumption
• II Art, Design, Media
• Chapter 7 Experiments in Suchness: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermès
• Chapter 8 Libeskind in Las Vegas: Reflections on Architecture as a Luxury Commodity
• Chapter 9 Sartorial Connoisseurship, the T-shirt and the Interrogation of Luxury
• Chapter 10 Online Luxury: Geographies of Production and Consumption and the Louis Vuitton Website
• Index