The artificial kingdom : a treasury of the kitsch experience / Celeste Olalquiaga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olalquiaga, Celeste.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kitsch.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Uncorrected Bound Galley.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, 1998.

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."

OCLC:

931538026