Kitsch! - Cultural Politics and Taste (Paperback)

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. With its unique approach to its subject, 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! 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 identify the ideological work performed by the category itself. The book poses the strongest challenge to those who argue that taste is democratised in contemporary culture, offering ample evidence that judgements of taste have shifted ground rather than relaxed. Above all, the story of kitsch proposed by the authors is intended to disturb kitsch's reputation as the source of a ready-made sensibility and politics. Kitsch has a history and not, as it has been supposed, an essence and is consequently the site of love, hate, joy, exasperation, irony, nausea and all of the twisted possibilities between. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Ruth Holliday • Tracey Potts
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-6616-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-6616-6
Barcode:	9780719066160

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