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The Artificial Kingdom (1998)

The Artificial Kingdom (1998)

Fantasy

Celeste Olalquiaga

Year: 1998
Authors: Celeste Olalquiaga
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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.