Critical Luxury Studies
Author | : Armitage John Armitage |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781474404877 |
ISBN-13 | : 1474404871 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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 21st century.