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Kitsch! : Cultural politics and taste
- Title
- Kitsch! : Cultural politics and taste / Ruth Holliday and Tracey Potts.
- Author
- Holliday, Ruth.
- Publication
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 13-357 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Potts, Tracey
- Description
- 266 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour); 22 cm
- Summary
- 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, this book 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-357
- ISBN
- 9780719066153
- 0719066158
- 9780719066160
- 0719066166 (paperback)
- OCLC
- 779881490
- Author
- Holliday, Ruth.
- Title
- Kitsch! : Cultural politics and taste / Ruth Holliday and Tracey Potts.
- Imprint
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Potts, Tracey, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-357