The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience by Celeste Olalquiaga

The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience

Celeste Olalquiaga

321 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

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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...

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