The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion

by Virginia Postrel

Book Overview

In provocative detail with more than one hundred illustrations, critically acclaimed author Virginia Postrel separates glamour from glitz, revealing what qualities make a person, an object, a setting, or an experience glamorous. What is it that creates that pleasurable pang of desire the feeling of if only ? If only I could wear those clothes, belong to that group, drive that car, live in that house, be (or be with) that person? Postrel identifies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416561110
• ISBN13: 9781416561118
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 6.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.4"