Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media

John Armitage; Joanne Roberts

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

Critical Luxury Studies

Art, Design, Media

John Armitage and Joanne Roberts

In the series Technicities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474402620

Overview
Contents

About this book

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
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

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Chapter 1 Critical Luxury Studies: Defining a Field John Armitage and Joanne Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Critical Luxury Studies
Chapter 2 Knowing Luxury: From Socio-Cultural Value to Market Price? Joanne Roberts and John Armitage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3 Luxury: A Dialectic of Desire? Christopher J. Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 4 The Luxury Duality: From Economic Fact to Cultural Capital Ulrich Lehmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 5 ‘Life’s Little Luxuries?’ The Social and Spatial Construction of Luxury Juliana Mansvelt, Mary Breheny and Iain Hay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 6 The Object and Art of Luxury Consumption Mike Featherstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
II Art, Design, Media
Chapter 7 Experiments in Suchness: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Silk Shiki for Hermès Thomaï Serdari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 8 Libeskind in Las Vegas: Reflections on Architecture as a Luxury Commodity Adam Sharr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 9 Sartorial Connoisseurship, the T-shirt and the Interrogation of Luxury Jonathan Faiers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 10 Online Luxury: Geographies of Production and Consumption and the Louis Vuitton Website Agnès Rocamora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 242
Illustrations
- Other: 16 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrations 3 B/W tables
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: April 18, 2016
ISBN: 9781474402620