Author

Contributions

  • McHale, John. - Contributor

Publication

1969 - Studio Vista, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

77,750 words, Guess

Page Count

311 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100289797608
  • ISBN-139780289797600
  • Goodreads1232035
  • LibraryThing377722
  • Library of Congress Control Number70519556
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Classifications

  • DDC701.17
  • LCCNX210 .D6 1969b
  • LCCBH301.K5 D67 1990
and 1 more
  • LCCNX210 .D6

Description

Gillo Dorfles offers a veritable "catalogue raisonne of reigning bad taste" in the visual arts. His purpose is not simply to entertain but rather to demonstrate the contagious and corrosive nature of a phenomenon that threatens to debilitate the creative energies of the very society that spawned it. He and the other contributors examine the use of kitsch in politics, religion, advertising, film, architecture and design, "pornokitsch," and the modern trappings that surround birth, family life and death. To document the vulgar and the sentimental, the unintentionally hilarious and the simply hideous is an undertaking that will, inevitably, include something to offend everyone.

Subjects

Topics

artpopsexArtsmythpornfilm

People

Ugo VolliKarl PawekJohn McHaleLudwig GieszHermann BrochLotte H. EisnerClement Greenberg

Other Editions

  • Kitsch: an anthology of bad tasteStudio Vista1969-01-01
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