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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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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, ArtEdition | Availability |
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The artificial kingdom: on the kitsch experience
2002, University of Minnesota Press
in English
081664117X 9780816641178
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The Artificial Kingdom
November 1, 1999, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hardcover
0747545359 9780747545354
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The artificial kingdom: a treasury of the kitsch experience
1998, Pantheon Books
in English
0679433937 9780679433934
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1998.
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