Critical luxury studies : art, media, design
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 22116820
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402613.001.0001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474402613
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume presents a ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led, and media related examination of the relations between historical and contemporary ideas of luxury. Introducing the field of ‘critical luxury studies’, this work offers a technocultural 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. Building on historical and contemporary luxury studies, from Western philosophy to luxury brand management, Armitage and Roberts, in the opening chapter, introduce and delineate the new field of critical luxury studies. Nine subsequent chapters by internationally renowned scholars adopt a critical luxury studies approach to investigate topics including cultural value, desire, political economy, space, consumption, art, objects, architecture, connoisseurship, and social media. Through the curation of this collection, the editors offer a comprehensive and rigorous assessment of the new field, and thereby confirm its value to contemporary scholars of luxury. Since the publication of this volume, the concept of critical luxury studies has been adopted by academics globally, including in Canada, Scandinavia, South Africa, and China. The significance of the volume is that it provides the foundation for an ongoing programme of research advanced by the editors’ own work on luxury and that of a growing number of other scholars appearing in journals such as Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, Critical Perspectives on International Business, Cultural Politics, and Urban Studies as well as books on African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics and Canadian Critical Luxury Studies. Luxury fascinates scholars in the visual arts, design, and media but its academic analysis has been dominated by writings on its history and luxury brand management. Critical Luxury Studies complements and challenges such writings.
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- Non-English
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