Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture (Paperback)

Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction, Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany), Petra Loffler (Humboldt-University, Germany) and Anne Soll (Ruhr-University, Germany) Part I: Dissemination of Shine (in Popular Culture) 1. Gloss for all: Shiny Cars and Bemberg Silk in the 1920s, Monika Wagner (University of Hamburg, Germany) 2. Flickering Lights: Shine and Diversion in Weimar Cinema, Petra Loffler (Humboldt-University, Germany) 3. Matte Black/Pan Cake: On the Negation of Shine, Tom Holert (Harun Farocki Institute, Germany) Part II: Temporalities of Shine within Material Cultures: Between Nostalgia, Appropriation and Expropriation 4. Fabric of Light, Surface of Displacement: Lame and its Shine in Early Twentieth-Century French Fashion, Mei Mei Rado (Parsons School of Design, USA) 5. Gleam: Rebranding Big Steel in Post-war America, Nicolas Maffei (Norwich University of the Arts, UK) 6. The Sheen of Shellac: From Reflective Material to Self-Reflective Medium, Elodie Roy (University of Glasgow, UK) Part III: Glimmer, Sparkle, Glitter - Performing Queer Identities 7. All that Sparkles and Shines: Deco, Dissidence and the Design of Glamorous Modern Interiors, John Potvin (Concordia University, Canada) 8. Cosmic Surfaces: Materiality and Portraiture in Queer Modernism, Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany) 9. Double Shiny: Leigh Bowery's costume design for Because We Must (1987/1989), Alistair O'Neil (Central St. Martins, UK) 10. "Inevitable Plastic Palace": A Surface Reading of Andy Warhol's Factory, Barbara Reisinger (University of Vienna, Austria) Part IV: Shiny Surfaces in the Art of the 1960s (and beyond) 11. Against the Biological Metaphor: Robert Smithson's Crystalline Figuration, Eva Ehninger (Humboldt University, Germany) 12. Shiny, Glossy and Smooth: Commodity Surfaces in 1960s and 70s Painting, Christian Spies (University of Cologne, Germany) 13. Finish Fetish: Judy Chicago in L.A., Kathrin Rottmann (Ruhr-University, Germany) 14. Shine on: The Mirror Ball as Art Object, Anne Soll (Ruhr-Universitat, Germany) Index