The artificial kingdom
on the kitsch experience
Edición de la obra The Artificial Kingdom
| Autor | Celeste Olalquiaga |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Minnesota Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2002 |
| Lugar | Minneapolis, MN |
| Idioma | inglés |
| ISBN-10 | 081664117X |
| LCCN | 2002072438 |
| Número de Cutter | O42a |
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.