Citations:plutography

English citations of plutography

Noun: "depiction, presentation, or coverage of the rich, particularly the lifestyles they enjoy"

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• 1986 — Tom Wolfe, "Snob's Progress", The New York Times, 15 June 1986:

  We live in the epochal moment of plutography, which is the great new American vice of the 1980's, just as pornography was the great new vice of the 1970's. […] Plutography is the graphic depiction of the lives of the rich.

• 1989 — "Joel Shinder's 'Marketplace of Ideas'", Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 19 August 1989:

  Or, for that matter, Town & Country's unapologetic "plutography" - Tom Wolfe's word for the graphic depiction of the acts of the rich.

• 1993 — Lou Anne Bulik, Mass Culture Criticism and Dissent: An American Socialist Magazine, Peter Lang (1993), →ISBN, page 235:

  Her description of the commercial alliance between Bloomingdale's and the Metropolitan Museum provides a detailed example of plutography, the graphic depiction of the acts of the rich, that Nicolaus Mills says was the guiding aesthetic of the 1980s.

• 1994 — Leonard Sweet, FaithQuakes, Abingdon Press (1994), →ISBN, page 94:

  The novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1988) is an example of style journalism or what Tom Wolfe calls "plutography."

• 1994 — Choice, April 1994, page 1252:

  "These works are China's closest approximation to plutography; Cheng's eye for the brand names and schools by which the old rich set themselves apart from upstarts shows an eye for detail equal to Dun's in the 1930s, though Mao Dun really knew the Thirties, and his heroes were the proletariat, not the snobs.

• 2004 — "Movies' princess myth becomes a royal pain", Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 September 2004:

  We successfully averted Hilary Duff's Valley Girl riff ("A Cinderella Story") and Julia Stiles' Midwestern spin ("The Prince & Me"), only to crash head-on into more Hathaway in "PD 2: Royal Engagement", an odious piece of plutography, the bait being more Julie Andrews.

• 2007 — Ed Quillen, "Wall Street Journal started downhill years ago", The Aspen Times, 25 August 2007:

  Sure, there was some good writing, but the Times also published too much plutography to suit me.

• 2008 — Bill Baldwin, "Addicted to Debt", Forbes, 6 October 2008:

  A fourth of the people on our list owe their wads to finance and investment, three times the fraction when we started this exercise in plutography 26 years ago.

• 2011 — Peter Lunenfeld, The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine, MIT Press (2011), →ISBN, page 145:

  This is the history of computing as plutography, stories about money.