The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
Book by Virginia Postrel
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Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing... Google Books
Originally published: September 2, 2003
Author: Virginia Postrel
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In short, this book explores how, in an increasingly affluent society, people are becoming more conscious about design, the look of things. We are expressing ...
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In short, this book explores how, in an increasingly affluent society, people are becoming more conscious about design, the look of things. We are expressing ...
Her Substance of Style is a highly readable essay on how and why style as aesthetics has come to be a part of daily life in the twenty-first century. Postrel ...
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Sep 7, 2004 · Intelligent, incisive, and thought-provoking, The Substance of Style is a groundbreaking portrait of the democratization of taste and a ...
This book seeks to untangle those confusions, by examining afresh the nature of aesthetic value and its relation to our personal, econom ic, and social lives.
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Drawing from fields as diverse as fashion, real estate, politics, design, and economics, Postrel deftly chronicles our culture's aesthetic imperative and argues ...