Format:
1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350192928
Series Statement:
Material culture of art and design
Content:
Dissemination of shine in popular culture -- Temporalities of shine within material culture : between nostalgia, appropriation and expropriation -- Glimmer, sparkle, glitter : performing queer identities -- Shiny surfaces in the art of the 1960s (and beyond)
Content:
"Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of material culture, promising luxury, social distinction and the hope of limitless experience and excess. Since the early twentieth century the mass production, dissemination and popularization of synthetic materials that produce heretofore-unknown effects of shine have increased. At the same time, shine is subjectified as "glamor" and made into a token of performative self-empowerment. The volume illuminates genealogical as well as systematic relationships between material phenomena of shine and cultural-philosophical concepts of appearance, illusion, distraction and glare in bringing together renowned scholars from various disciplines"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350192899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350192898
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350192904
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350192911
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350192935
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350192935
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350192935
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350192928
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