Critical luxury studies : art, design, media / [electronic resource]
Armitage, John, author.
Armitage, John,1956-editor.
Roberts, Joanne,editor.
John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. This volume gives you a technocultural focus on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studies.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- 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 -- PLATES -- 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.
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John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. This volume gives you a technocultural focus on aesthetic, design-led and media practice with key case studies.
Luxuries
Luxury
Consumption (Economics)