Ebook: Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media

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 Hermès
• The plain white t-shirt
• Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LMVH)

Contributors

• John Armitage
• Christopher J. Berry
• Mary Breheny
• Jonathan Faiers
• Mike Featherstone
• Iain Hay
• Ulrich Lehmann
• Juliana Mansvelt
• Agnès Rocamora
• Joanne Roberts
• Thomaï Serdari
• Adam Sharr