Critical Luxury Studies : Art, Design, Media Digital (delivered electronically)

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 HermesThe plain white t-shirtLouis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LMVH) Contributors John ArmitageChristopher J.

BerryMary BrehenyJonathan FaiersMike FeatherstoneIain HayUlrich LehmannJuliana MansveltAgnes RocamoraJoanne RobertsThomai SerdariAdam Sharr