Author: Tomas Kulka
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: art, kitsch
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0271015942
ISBN-13: 9780271015941

What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed; its aesthetic worthlessness has been generally assumed but seldom explained. Kitsch and Art seeks to give this phenomenon its due by exploring the basis of artistic evaluation and aesthetic value judgments. Tomas Kulka examines kitsch in the visual arts, literature, music, and architecture. To distinguish kitsch from art, Kulka proposes that kitsch depicts instantly identifiable, emotionally charge

Author: Jonathan Mayhew
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: kitsch, parody, translation, lorca, apocryphal
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0226512037
ISBN-13: 9780226512037

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) had enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. In large numbers, these poets have not only translated his works, but written imitations, parodies, and pastiches—along with essays and critical reviews. Jonathan Mayhew’s Apocryphal Lorca is an exploration of the afterlife of this legendary Spanish writer in the poetic culture of the United States.             The book examines how Lorca in English translation has become a

Author: Peter Genovese
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: kingdom, kitsch, guide, definitive, florida, roadside
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0811701832
ISBN-13: 9780811701839

Visit Goofy Golf, Florida’s coolest miniature golf course. Explore Gatorama, home to the state’s largest captive croc, Goliath. See Orange World, the 62-foot-tall orange-shaped fruit stand. The author of Roadside New Jersey (0811720614) goes south to explore the outrageous roadside attractions that have come to define the Sunshine State in this fun, full-color book. Experience the best Florida has to offer.