Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany), Petra Loeffler (Humboldt-University, Germany) and AEnne Soell (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 Loeffler (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, AEnne Soell (Ruhr-Universitaet, Germany)
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