An edition of The Artificial Kingdom (1998)

The artificial kingdom

a treasury of the kitsch experience

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An edition of The Artificial Kingdom (1998)

The artificial kingdom

a treasury of the kitsch experience

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  • 7 Want to read

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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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
321

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Subjects

art, attachment, collectibles, fantasy, figurines, imagination, keepsakes, kitsch, loss, mementos, memory, narrative, nostalgia, past, preservation, remembering, remembrance, sentiment, sentimentality, snowglobes, time, tourism, New York Times reviewed

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Cover of: The artificial kingdom
The artificial kingdom: on the kitsch experience
2002, University of Minnesota Press
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Cover of: The Artificial Kingdom
The Artificial Kingdom
November 1, 1999, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Cover of: The artificial kingdom
The artificial kingdom: a treasury of the kitsch experience
1998, Pantheon Books
in English
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"With remarkable objects of art and nature, extraordinary events, eccentric biography and originsl theory plus many wonderful illustrations selected by the author."

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709/.03/48
Library of Congress
BH301.K5 O43 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 321 p. :
Number of pages
321

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL354782M
Internet Archive
artificialkingdo00olal
ISBN 10
0679433937
LCCN
98014530
OCLC/WorldCat
38519174
Library Thing
839420
Goodreads
838589

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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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