Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474425828
• ISBN13: 9781474425827
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"