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.
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Author: John Armitage (Professor of Media Arts, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) ,
Joanne Roberts (Professor in Arts and Cultural Management and Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474425827
ISBN 10: 1474425828
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 01 August 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"A collection of extremely high quality papers, which is interesting and provocative throughout, and exemplary in its commitment to the inter-disciplinary study of everything luxurious.--Mark Featherstone, Keele University ""Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption"""
Armitage and Roberts offer a careful philosophical examination of luxury, enhanced by an exemplary series of case studies. In assembling this broad range of insightful contributions and through their own nuanced analysis, the authors make a timely contribution to the study of luxury as a cultural phenomenon.--Peter Oakley, Royal College of Art Taking its lead from an innovative combination of social, philosophical, linguistic and aesthetic theories, this important book demolishes the myths of contemporary luxury-brand marketing. Goods from men's wrist-watches to highly priced designer T-shirts will never appear the same. The book encourages the reader to take their own critical look at the contemporary landscape of globalised consumption.--Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney and Aalto University A collection of extremely high quality papers, which is interesting and provocative throughout, and exemplary in its commitment to the inter-disciplinary study of everything luxurious.--Mark Featherstone, Keele University ""Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption""
"Armitage and Roberts offer a careful philosophical examination of luxury, enhanced by an exemplary series of case studies. In assembling this broad range of insightful contributions and through their own nuanced analysis, the authors make a timely contribution to the study of luxury as a cultural phenomenon.--Peter Oakley, Royal College of Art Taking its lead from an innovative combination of social, philosophical, linguistic and aesthetic theories, this important book demolishes the myths of contemporary luxury-brand marketing. Goods from men's wrist-watches to highly priced designer T-shirts will never appear the same. The book encourages the reader to take their own critical look at the contemporary landscape of globalised consumption.--Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney and Aalto University A collection of extremely high quality papers, which is interesting and provocative throughout, and exemplary in its commitment to the inter-disciplinary study of everything luxurious.--Mark Featherstone, Keele University ""Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption"""
A collection of extremely high quality papers, which is interesting and provocative throughout, and exemplary in its commitment to the inter-disciplinary study of everything luxurious.--Mark Featherstone, Keele University Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption
Author Information
John Armitage is Emeritus Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. John’s research interests include luxury and visual culture, new media art, continental philosophy, and the critical theory of technology. He is the author of Luxury and Visual Culture (2020) and Luxury Philosophy (2025). 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. Her research interests include knowledge, innovation, creativity, and luxury. Her latest book is A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Knowledge Management (Sage Publications, 2015). She is an Editorial Advisory Board member of Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Taylor & Francis).
