The artificial kingdom : a treasury of the kitsch experience : with remarkable objects of art and nature, extraordinary events, eccentric biography and original theory plus many wonderful illustrations by the author / Celeste Olalquiaga.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 1999, c1998.Description: xii, 321 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 21 cmISBN:- 0747545359
- 9780747545354
- 709.0348 KIT
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 709.0348 KIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100567727 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Kitsch: trash; art, literature, fashion etc dismissed as being merely of popular taste or appeal, vulgar, sentimental or sometimes pretentious. Celeste Olalquiaga's playful yet intellectually rigorous book reclaims kitsch from the dustbin of art history (the word derives from the German kitschen, to collect junk from the street).
Originally pub;ished: New York : Pantheon Books, c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.