Coolness

The Pure Elegance of Freedom

Michael Köckritz

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English

teNeues Media GmbH & Co. KG
01 June 2023

Photographs: collections; Photographs: portraits

Cool. Whether it's a cool guy, cool sunglasses, or a cool film the attribute 'cool', which until the early '90s was still the definitive identifier of rebellious youth culture speech, is now encountered globally and across all social classes in an almost inflationary manner.

The adjective 'cool' is now regarded as a vague paraphrase for something positively casual and is particularly fond of offering itself to us with an aura of self-confident modernity and stylistic confidence. Unfortunately, whoever says 'cool' today often just means a fashion word, representative of who or what is currently hip and what is not. Everything that is somehow hip, trendy or 'in' is called 'cool'. Everything should, and everyone wants, to be cool.

On the one hand, 'coolness' is an empty buzzword, on the other hand, it is a self-confident, late-modern individual attitude and behavioural strategy with rebellious roots against a twisted and unjust world.

AUTHOR: As a journalist, author, artist and media maker, Michael Köckritz always succeeds in setting attention-grabbing impulses in the context of contemporary and future topics as well as lifestyle and luxury worlds with good-humoured ease. As publisher and editor-in-chief, he has realised numerous book and lifestyle magazine formats that have regularly won numerous national and international awards for years. The car culture magazine ramp, the men's lifestyle magazine rampstyle and the design magazine ramp.design are published internationally and are considered style-setting.

SELLING POINTS: .

A richly-illustrated homage to coolness as an attitude and an aesthetic .

An edgy project, both a documentary and a work of art, with a stunning visual execution and packed with creative energy .

Amusing, entertaining, yet also tremendously rich in layers given its interdisciplinary perspective

200 colour illustrations

By: Michael Köckritz
Imprint: teNeues Media GmbH & Co. KG
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.779kg
ISBN: 9783961714698
ISBN 10: 396171469X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

As a journalist, author, artist and media maker, Michael Köckritz always succeeds in setting attention-grabbing impulses in the context of contemporary and future topics as well as lifestyle and luxury worlds with good-humoured ease. As publisher and editor-in-chief, he has realised numerous book and lifestyle magazine formats that have regularly won numerous national and international awards for years. The car culture magazine ramp, the men's lifestyle magazine rampstyle and the design magazine ramp.design are published internationally and are considered style-setting.

Reviews for Coolness: The Pure Elegance of Freedom

"""… a holistic view, researches and collages history and stories, talks to interdisciplinary experts about backgrounds and developments, characteristics and criteria, identifies with you the icons and personalities that so strikingly shape our modern image of coolness."" - Collectors Car World"