Kitsch encyclopedia : a survey of universal knowledge / Sara Cwynar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cwynar, Sara, 1985- artist.

Contributor:

Blonde Art Books (Organization), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cwynar, Sara, 1985-.

Cwynar, Sara.

Kitsch--Encyclopedias.

Kitsch.

Appropriation (Art).

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Artists' books (books) -- 2014.

Artists' books (books) -- United States.

Penn Provenance:

Cwynar, Sara, 1985- (autograph) (Fine Arts Rare copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Blonde Art Books, 2014.

Notes:

"Kitsch Encyclopedia is a book project that brings together writings by Milan Kundera, Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, as well as my own writing to formulate a relationship of kitsch to images. Kundera considers kitsch to be a categorizing phenomenon: a means through which complex human experience is distilled to simple, sentimental motifs. All three writers discuss a similar circumstance of the contemporary image world: the way that our culture of images, especially in the age of the internet, provides an Idealized, kitsch-based image world that exists on top of the real world and in many ways has subsumed it. Edition of 1000."--Sara Cwynar's website, viewed May 23, 2014.

Machine sewn binding; cloth hardcover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Fine Arts Rare copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from Karma in 2016.

Fine Arts Rare copy signed by the artist.

ISBN:

9780989967617

0989967611

OCLC:

880559630