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a treasury of the kitsch experience

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An edition of The Artificial Kingdom (1998)

The artificial kingdom

a treasury of the kitsch experience

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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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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
321

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Subjects
art, attachment, collectibles, fantasy, figurines, imagination, keepsakes, kitsch, loss, mementos, memory, narrative, nostalgia, past, preservation, remembering, remembrance, sentiment, sentimentality, snowglobes, time, tourism, Kitsch, New York Times reviewed, Art

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The artificial kingdom: on the kitsch experience
2002, University of Minnesota Press
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The Artificial Kingdom
November 1, 1999, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The artificial kingdom: a treasury of the kitsch experience
1998, Pantheon Books
in English
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"With remarkable objects of art and nature, extraordinary events, eccentric biography and originsl theory plus many wonderful illustrations selected by the author."

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709/.03/48
Library of Congress
BH301.K5 O43 1998

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Pagination
xii, 321 p. :
Number of pages
321

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL354782M
Internet Archive
artificialkingdo00olal
ISBN 10
0679433937
LCCN
98014530
Library Thing
839420
Goodreads
838589

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