| Description |
xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
The Artificial Kingdom is the first book to provide a cultural history of kitsch, an immensely popular aesthetic phenomenon that has always been disdained as "bad taste," or a cheap imitation of art. Proposing instead that kitsch is the product of a larger sensibility of loss, Celeste Olalquiaga shows how it enables the momentary re-creation of experiences that exist only as memories or fantasies. Simultaneously exposing and celebrating this process, Olalquiaga gives us a bold, trenchant analysis of what and how we see when we look at kitsch |
| Notes |
"With remarkable objects of art and nature, extraordinary events, eccentric biography and originsl theory plus many wonderful illustrations selected by the author." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Kitsch.
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| LC no. |
98014530 |
| ISBN |
0679433937 (alk. paper) |
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