The Substance of Style
Title | The Substance of Style PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Postrel |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0061852864 |
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 how Americans live and work. The twenty-first century has become the age of aesthetics, and whether we realize it or not, this influence has taken over the marketplace, and much more. In this penetrating, keenly observed book, Virginia Postrel makes the argument that appearance counts, that aesthetic value is real. Drawing from fields as diverse as fashion, real estate, politics, design, and economics, Postrel deftly chronicles our culture's aesthetic imperative and argues persuasively that it is a vital component of a healthy, forward-looking society. Intelligent, incisive, and thought-provoking, The Substance of Style is a groundbreaking portrait of the democratization of taste and a brilliant examination of the way we live now.
Style and Substance
Title | Style and Substance PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Russell |
Publisher | Filipacchi Publishing |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2009-10-28 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1933231602 |
"Style and Substance" offers a unique look at hundreds of dazzling rooms the magazine has showcased during its first two decades. Illustrations throughout.
The Substance of Style
Title | The Substance of Style PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Postrel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2003 |
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The Economics of Attention
Title | The Economics of Attention PDF eBook |
Author | Richard A. Lanham |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2006-04-21 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226468828 |
If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. With all the verve and erudition that have established his earlier books as classics, Richard A. Lanham here traces our epochal move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. According to Lanham, the central commodity in our new age of information is not stuff but style, for style is what competes for our attention amidst the din and deluge of new media. In such a world, intellectual property will become more central to the economy than real property, while the arts and letters will grow to be more crucial than engineering, the physical sciences, and indeed economics as conventionally practiced. For Lanham, the arts and letters are the disciplines that study how human attention is allocated and how cultural capital is created and traded. In an economy of attention, style and substance change places. The new attention economy, therefore, will anoint a new set of moguls in the business world—not the CEOs or fund managers of yesteryear, but new masters of attention with a grounding in the humanities and liberal arts. Lanham’s The Electronic Word was one of the earliest and most influential books on new electronic culture. The Economics of Attention builds on the best insights of that seminal book to map the new frontier that information technologies have created.
Joan Didion
Title | Joan Didion PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen M. Vandenberg |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2021-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438481403 |
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Much acclaimed and often imitated, Joan Didion remains one of the leading American essayists and political journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The lone woman writer among the New Journalists in the 1960s and '70s, Didion became a powerful critic of public and political mythologies in the '80s and '90s, and was an inspiration for those, particularly women, dealing with aging and grief and loss in the early 2000s. An iconic figure, Didion is still much admired by readers, critics, and essayists, who speak of looking to her prose style as a model for their own. In Joan Didion: Substance and Style, Kathleen M. Vandenberg explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for its beauty and poetry, also works rhetorically. Through close readings of selected nonfiction from the last forty years—biographically, culturally, and politically situated—Vandenberg reveals how Didion deliberately and powerfully employs style to emphasize her point of view and enchant her readers. While Didion continues to publish and the "Cult of Joan," as one author calls it, grows seemingly stronger by the day, this book is the only extended treatment of Didion's later nonfiction and the first sustained and close consideration of how her essays work at the level of the sentence.
The Authentics: A Lush Dive into the Substance of Style
Title | The Authentics: A Lush Dive into the Substance of Style PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Acevedo |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-10-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0804189250 |
From renowned photographer Melanie Acevedo and founding editor of domino magazine Dara Caponigro, comes a lush dive into the private worlds and gorgeous homes of creative trailblazers in art, design, and fashion around the world. The Authentics is a deep exploration into the substance of style through evocative photography and stimulating interviews that seek to unravel the tenets of taste and talent. The featured homeowners, all true originals, help define our culture--including interior designer Miles Redd, actress Peggy Lipton, and Libertine designer Johnson Hartig. With an artful mix of color and black-and-white photography that includes portraits, interiors, gardens, and still-life shots of flowers, food, and more, The Authentics examines the lives and work of these visionaries in an inspiring tribute to confidence, originality, and the power of finding one's own voice.
Don't Be Such a Scientist, Second Edition
Title | Don't Be Such a Scientist, Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Olson |
Publisher | Island Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2018-04-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1610919173 |
In Don't Be Such a Scientist, Randy Olson shares lessons of his transformation from tenured professor to Hollywood filmmaker, challenging the science world to toss out its stodgy past in favor of something more dymanic --and ultimately more human. In this second edition, Olson buils upon the radical approach of Don't Be Such a Scientist throught timely updates and new stories. In his signature candid style, Olson weighs in on recent events in the science community, celebrating the rise in grassroots activism while critiquing the scientific establishment. In an age of renewed attack on science, Don't Be Such a Scientist, Second Edition is a provocative guide to making your voice heard.--