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Shiny Things is now available!
Friday, July 30, 2021

Shiny Things is now available!

Shiny Things, by Leonard Diepeveen and Timothy van Laar, combines an interest in visual art with a broad attention to popular culture – the wideness of its range is striking. It is more than just an expansion of subject matter, which many of today’s innovative books also have – it considers how a specific physical property manifests itself in both art and culture at large, and contributes to an analysis of and polemics about the world. It is accessibly written but with a careful application of contemporary theory.

 

The book engages primarily with visual art, although it makes frequent use of material culture, as well as advertising, film, literature, and other areas of popular and political culture. The art world, however, is a place where many of the affects of shininess come into clearest focus, where the polemical semiotics of shine are most evident and consciously explored.

 

Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meaning is out now in the UK and Europe! The ebook is available worldwide and the paperback will be released in the US on September 1.

 

www.intellectbooks.com/shiny-things