Critical Luxury Studies by John Armitage

Critical Luxury Studies by John Armitage

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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.

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Critical Luxury Studies by John Armitage

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.
John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts and Co-Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Joanne Roberts is Professor in Arts and Cultural Management and Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
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ISBN 13 9781474425827
ISBN 10 1474425828
Title Critical Luxury Studies
Author John Armitage
Series Edinburgh Companions To Literature
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Digital (delivered electronically)
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Year published 2017-12-31
Number of pages 320
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