Artificial Kingdom: On The Kitsch Experience; Author: Olalquiaga, Celeste; Paperback

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Artificial Kingdom: On The Kitsch Experience

Author: Olalquiaga, Celeste
Paperback; 103 Halftones, 3 Figures
336 pages
Published: December 2002
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081664117X

From her pet glass-globed hermit crab Rodney to the Victorian era's Crystal Palace, Celeste Olalquiaga offers a meditative look at the origins of kitsch and what kitsch tells us about the conflicts between the real and the artificial, tradition and modernity, nostalgia and melancholy. Olalquiaga artfully traces this form to the mid-1800s and establishes kitsch as a sensibility of loss -- a yearning for objects to help recapture the past -- and explains how these artifacts respond to a deep-seated human need for meaning and connection with nature. The Artificial Kingdom beautifully elucidates this aspect of culture as an attempt to recover what industrialization has destroyed.

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