"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"--
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.
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Investigates the materials, practices, and politics of shine in modern arts and popular culture.
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| Introduction Antje Krause-Wahl, Petra Loffler, and Anne Soil |
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Part 1 Dissemination of Shine in Popular Culture |
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1 Gloss For All: Shiny Cars And Bemberg Silk In The 1920S Monika Wagner |
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2 Flickering Lights: Shine And Diversion In Weimar Cinema Petra Loffler |
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3 Matte Black/Pan-Cake--On The Negation Of Shine Tom Holert |
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Part 2 Temporalities of Shine within Material Cultures: Between Nostalgia, Appropriation, and Expropriation |
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4 Fabric Of Light, Surface Of Displacement: Lame And Its Shine In Early Twentieth-Century French Fashion Mei Mei Rado |
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5 Gleam: Rebranding Big Steel In Postwar America Nicolas P. Maffei |
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6 The Sheen Of Shellac--From Reflective Material To Self-Reflective Medium Elodie A. Roy |
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Part 3 Glimmer, Sparkle, Glitter: Performing Queer Identities |
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7 All That Sparkles And Shines: Deco, Dissidence, And The Design Of Glamorous Modern Interiors John Potvin |
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8 Cosmic Surfaces: Materiality And Portraiture In Queer Modernism Antje Krause-Wahl |
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9 Double Shiny: Leigh Bowery's Costume Design For Because We Must (1987/1989) Alistair O'Neill |
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10 "Inevitable Plastic Palace": A Surface Reading Of Andy Warhol's Factory Barbara Reisinger |
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Part 4 Shiny Surfaces in the Art of the 1960s (and Beyond) |
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11 Against The Biological Metaphor: Robert Smithson's Crystalline Figuration Eva Ehninger |
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12 Shiny, Glossy, And Smooth: Commodity Surfaces In 1960S And 1970S Painting Christian Spies |
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13 Finish Fetish: Judy Chicago In La Kathrin Rottmann |
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14 Shine On: The Mirror Ball As Art Object Anne Soil |
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Antje Krause-Wahl is Professor for Contemporary Art at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research focuses on Art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially in the US; artist's identity and education; painting and painting theory after 1945; gender studies (queer studies); interaction between art and digital culture; (artist) magazines, fashion and fashion photography.
Petra Löffler is Professor for Theory & History of Contemporary Media at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany. Her research focuses on material culture, film and photography, affect theory and media ecology.
Änne Söll is Professor for Modern Art History at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her areas of research include: art of the Weimar Republic, gender studies (masculinities), portraiture, fashion photography, video installations, artists magazines, museum architecture and period rooms.
