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Celeste Olalquiaga
321 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780679433934
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
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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...
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Celeste Olalquiaga
321 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780679433934
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
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...