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Through a range of case studies, this book challenges male-dominant art market history by exploring how female dealers worked to promote international art and acted as key agents in the development of the modern global art market.

Using image and film advertisements, interviews, social media and public and private archives, Luxury Fashion and Media Communication offers an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the value of the luxury object. Regular reports on consumption in media and frequent advertising on social media have allowed people all over the world to share in the issues and development of luxury; but how is it communicated, and how has it affected the consumer?An international range of scholars explore the material and immaterial value and meaning of luxury, how it is materialized and how it is communicated between the luxury industry and the consumer. Investigating French, Italian and Spanish luxury brands and their communication strategies on the global market, and including two chapters focusing specifically on the Chinese and American markets, they examine the ambiguity of the luxury commodity. This volume shows particularly the conflicting narratives between the idea of exclusivity and human skills and their mass marketing.In exploring theoretical perspectives alongside the practicalities of how luxury is communicated, Luxury Fashion and Media Communication reveals the value of the luxury object and the consumer's behaviour in relation to that value. It offers an innovative and important intervention in the inter-related fields of luxury fashion, media and communication, and key reading for scholars, students and practitioners wishing to explore the material and immaterial value of luxury.

What is the place of Sufi and philosophical thought in Shi'ism today?This book delves into the ongoing debate within the contemporary Shia seminary over the role of Sufi and philosophical thought in interpreting religion. It examines two opposing schools: the Sufi School of Najaf, which harmonizes philosophy, Sufism, and revelation, and the Maktab-i Tafkik (School of Separation), which rejects such integration.Tracing their historical development from the mid-19th century to the present, the book explores how these schools emerged and spread, analyzing their contrasting approaches to religion.Beyond historical narrative, it provides an in-depth analysis of the philosophical and theological arguments of each school, highlighting their differing views on the soul, divine revelation, and the interplay of reason and faith.By examining manuscripts, historical texts, and personal memoirs, the book offers a nuanced perspective on the intellectual currents shaping today's Shia thought, inviting readers to reconsider the relationship between philosophy, Sufism, and Shia theology.

This powerful volume provides dynamic ways of constructing theologies of resistance and liberation by engaging with the everyday practices of marginalised communities.

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Using a transnational approach to the intellectual history of 19th-century Italy, this book examines the highly idiosyncratic juxtaposition and amalgamation of local and foreign philosophical traditions, chiefly represented by the thought of Giambattista Vico and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Alessandro De Arcangelis convincingly argues the decisive role this played in shaping a historical mindset able to direct, and give legitimacy to, Italians' experiences of political change.By adopting a distinctly revisionist perspective, Arcangelis contends that, contrary to most scholarly verdicts on these exchanges, Italian thinkers did not view foreign ideas as models to imitate, or passively apply to the Italian political context. Instead, they maintained a highly critical attitude, which encouraged them to question what they were learning from their reception of foreign sources, critique their conceptual foundations, and grow suspicious of their applicability to the historical and political circumstances of the peninsula. Vico, Hegel, and the Making of Modern Italy reveals that it is not through the local assimilation of foreign ideas, but via an undefeated allegiance to the indigenous tradition of thought, exemplified by Vico's philosophy of history and the wider political tradition of the Neapolitan Enlightenment, that Italian authors sought to regenerate their culture, and respond to the local, national, and transnational political questions of the day.The book details how ways of thinking philosophically empowered Italian intellectuals to work through the uncertainties, drama, and energy of profound and unprecedented shifts in their experience of historical time. It tells a story that functions, above all, as an instructive and timely a reminder of the genuine and tangible significance of philosophical knowledge in Italian history, and its exceptional ability to chart the country's political destiny.

Unparalleled in its wide-ranging coverage of European borders in fiction, this book traverses over 600 novels and short stories to examine how post-1945 novelists have debated European borders.Examining the structures that underpin borders and boundaries, Hammond provides important new insights into the ideologies, processes and effects of territorialisation and its related issues - conflict, migration, populism, nationalism, regionalism and globalisation. Thoroughly contextualising the literary texts in terms of geopolitical developments, new border regimes and human rights, he offers new ways of understanding the cultural dimensions of bordering processes in the modern age. Hammond complements other more theoretical approaches by using a 'distant reading' approach to open up new avenues for research and create robust grounds for comparison. Emphasising three main types of border - civilizational borders, physical borders and social borders - this book examines the ideological underpinnings of the construction of boundaries, the military and bureaucratic practices of physical exclusion and the social and psychological consequences for those who are excluded. Drawing on writings from both Europe and the Global South, this study represents a significant contribution to European literary studies and continental border writing. It opens up important new avenues for decolonised research and teaching for scholars across literary and border studies.

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st-century metaphors and images used to communicate climate change and ecological crisis actually conceal the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.

Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.From the 'home studios' of Charles and Ray Eames, to the different photographic representations of Robert Rauschenberg's studio, this book explores the home as a distinct site of artistic practice, and the traditions and developments of the home studio as concept and space throughout the 20th and into the 21st century.Using examples from across Europe and the Anglophone world between the mid-20th century and the present, each chapter considers the different circumstances for working at home, the impact on the creative lives of the artists, their identities as artists and on the work itself, and how, sometimes, these were projected and promoted through photographs and the media. Key themes include the gendered and performative aspects of women practising 'at home', collaborative studio communities of the 1970s - 90s including the appropriation of abandoned spaces in East London, and the effects of Covid on artistic practices and family life within the spaces of 'home'. The book comprises full-length chapters by artists, architects, art and design historians, each of whom bring different perspectives to the issues, interwoven with short interviews with artists to enrich and broaden the debates.At a time when individual relationships to home environments have been radically altered, The Artist at Home considers why some artists in previous decades either needed to or chose to work from home, producing work of vitality and integrity. Tracing this long tradition into the present, the book will provide a deeper understanding of how the home studio has affected the practices and identity of artists working in different countries, and in different circumstances, from the mid-20th century to the present.