Kitsch! Holliday Ruth
Kitsch! Holliday Ruth From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of objects to explore the changing significance of kitsch.…
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Kitsch! Holliday Ruth
From bottle gardens, the bachelor pad and Batman to designer gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a diverse range of objects to explore the changing significance of kitsch. Cultural politics and taste promises to advance debates in cultural studies and sociology around taste, while providing an invaluable introduction for students and interested readers.Kitsch! With its unique approach to its subject, Kitsch!
The figure of 'kitsch man' - a degenerate with politically dubious taste - looms large in the extant biography of kitsch and is here shown to be gendered, racialised and classed. examines how the idea of kitsch is mobilised - progressively, as bad taste, as camp and as cool - to inform notions of identity and sensibility. Where most studies proceed from the kitsch object, this book takes the moment of aesthetic judgement as its starting point and attempts to