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 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 IncludeContributors
- Hiroshi Sugimoto's Silk Shiki for Hermes
- The plain white t-shirt
- Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LMVH)
- John Armitage
- Christopher J. Berry
- Mary Breheny
- Jonathan Faiers
- Mike Featherstone
- Iain Hay
- Ulrich Lehmann
- Juliana Mansvelt
- Agnes Rocamora
- Joanne Roberts
- Thomai Serdari
- Adam Sharr
- ISBN13 9781474425827
- Publish Date 31 December 2017 (first published 31 May 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 320
- Language English