The artificial kingdom
a treasury of the kitsch experience
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Author
Publication
1998 - Pantheon Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
80,250 words, Guess
Page Count
321 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL354782M
- ISBN-100679433937
- OCLC Control Number38519174
- OCLC Control Numberartificialkingdo00olal
- Library of Congress Control Number98014530
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- Goodreads838589
- LibraryThing839420
Classifications
- DDC709/.03/48
- LCCBH301.K5 O43 1998
Description
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.
Description
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.
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