MATERIALS, PRACTICES, AND POLITICS OF SHINE IN MODERN ART AND POPULAR CULTURE
Bloomsbury Academic
2021
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Shiny Shiny: Leigh Bowery’s costumes for Because We Must by Michael Clark Company
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. 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.
Shiny Shiny: Leigh Bowery’s costumes for Because We Must by Michael Clark Company
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. 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.