An edition of Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste (1969)

Kitsch; the world of bad taste.

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An edition of Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste (1969)

Kitsch; the world of bad taste.

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Gillo Dorfles offers a veritable "catalogue raisonne of reigning bad taste" in the visual arts. His purpose is not simply to entertain but rather to demonstrate the contagious and corrosive nature of a phenomenon that threatens to debilitate the creative energies of the very society that spawned it. He and the other contributors examine the use of kitsch in politics, religion, advertising, film, architecture and design, "pornokitsch," and the modern trappings that surround birth, family life and death. To document the vulgar and the sentimental, the unintentionally hilarious and the simply hideous is an undertaking that will, inevitably, include something to offend everyone.

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Universe Books
Language
English
Pages
311

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architecture, art, camp, bio-pics, design, fine art, high art, avant-garde, Christianity, cinema, collectibles, death, figurines, film, kitsch, kitsch attitude, kitsch-man, Kitsch-Mensch, literature, marriage, modern art, modernism, modernity, monuments, monumental art, movies, myth, nature, novels, painting, pop, popular culture, porn, pornography, public art, religion, romanticism, sculpture, sentimentality, sex, styling, tourism, Arts, Aesthetics, Tackiness, 02.99 science and culture in general: other, 20.07 art criticism, art review, Estetica (Arte), Modern Arts

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John McHale, Karl Pawek, Ludwig Giesz, Lotte H. Eisner, Ugo Volli, Vittorio Gregotti, Aleksa Celebonovic, Hermann Broch, Clement Greenberg

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Kitsch: An anthology of bad taste;
1969, Studio Vista
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Cover of: Kitsch; the world of bad taste.
Kitsch; the world of bad taste.
1969, Universe Books
in English
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Translation of Il Kitsch.

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Dewey Decimal Class
701.17
Library of Congress
NX210 .D6

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311 p.
Number of pages
311

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OL4753714M
Internet Archive
kitschworldofbad0000dorf
ISBN 10
0876631065
LCCN
78093950
OCLC/WorldCat
63058
Library Thing
377722
Goodreads
1232031

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