Edinburgh Companions to Literature Series

Critical Luxury Studies

by Joanne Roberts

Published 31 May 2016

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 Hermes
The plain white t-shirt
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LMVH)

Contributors

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