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Artificial Kingdom, The : A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience
Artificial Kingdom The A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience
Author: Celeste Olalquiaga
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679433934
ISBN-10: 0679433937
Publication Date: 12/1/1998
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Hardcover
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