232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process,... Read more
1. The Kohinoor Diamond 2. The Civil Inattention of the Object: The Making of the Late-Nineteenth Century Surrounding 3. The Society of Surroundings: Museum, Exhibition, and Shop 4. Kitsch and Clutter: Inhabiting Dream Interiors 5. Borderlands: Scent, Color, and the Middle Class Garden 6. Conservation Surroundings: Spaces of Suspended Time 7. The Japonisation of the Commodity: Lacquer, Surface, and Spectacle 8. Revealed Construction and Aesthetic Subjectivity 9. Conclusion
Biography
Kevin Hetherington is Professor of Geography at Open University, UK.
