TY - BOOK AU - Roberts, Joanne AU - Armitage, John TI - Critical luxury studies SN - 9781474425827 PY - 2016/// CY - PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - HD INDUSTRIES. LAND USE. LABOR KW - Luxuries KW - Social aspects KW - Luxury KW - Consumption (Economics) aspects N1 - art, design, media; Critical luxury studies : defining a field / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts; Knowing luxury : from socio-cultural value to market price? / Joanne Roberts and John Armitage--; Luxury : a dialectic of desire? / Christopher J. Berry--; The luxury duality : from economic fact to cultural capital / Ulrich Lehmann--; 'Life's little luxuries?' the social and spatial construction of luxury / Juliana Mansvelt, Mary Breheny and Iain Hay--; The object and art of luxury consumption / Mike Featherstone--; Experiments in suchness : Hiroshi Sugimoto's silk shiki for Hermès / Thomai Serdari--; Libeskind in Las Vegas : reflections on architecture as a luxury commodity / Adam Sharr--; Sartorial connoisseurship, the T-shirt and the interrogation of luxury / Jonathan Faiers--; Online luxury : geographies of production and consumption and the Louis Vuitton website / Agnes Rocamora.-- N2 - 'Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distincitve 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.' ER -