The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience Annie McDermott Women like her bring men

Women like her bring men to their knees

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Humorous rhyming songs and an out-of-control word machine add to the fun

The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience Annie McDermott Women like her bring menThe 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,