The changing meaning of kitsch : from rejection to acceptance / Max Ryynänen, Paco Barragán, editors.
Ryynänen, Max.; Barragán, Paco, 1963-
2023
BH301.K5 C43 2023
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Title The changing meaning of kitsch : from rejection to acceptance / Max Ryynänen, Paco Barragán, editors.
ISBN 9783031166327 electronic book
3031166329 electronic book
3031166310
9783031166310
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16632-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-16632-7 doi
Call Number BH301.K5 C43 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 709.04/013
Summary This book inaugurates a new phase in kitsch studies. Kitsch, an aesthetic slur of the 19th and the 20th century, is increasingly considered a positive term and at the heart of todays society. Eleven distinguished authors from philosophy, cultural studies and the arts discuss a wide range of topics including beauty, fashion, kitsch in the context of mourning, bio-art, visual arts, architecture and political kitsch. In addition, the editors provide a concise theoretical introduction to the volume and the subject. The role of kitsch in contemporary culture and society is innovatively explored and the volume aims not to condemn but to accept and understand why kitsch has become acceptable today. Max Ryynnen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture and Head of the MA program Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in Aalto University (Helsinki/Espoo). Paco Barragan is an arts writer, curator and a PhD candidate at the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain.
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Barragán, Paco, 1963-
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Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Images
Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance-On the Changing Meaning of Kitsch in Today's Cultural Production (Introduction)
1 The History of "Kitsch" and Its Everyday Use
2 The Artworld Has Gone Kitsch
3 The Content of the Book
Bibliography
Part I: Kitsch and Life
Kitsch in the Hypermodern Era
1 The Extension of Kitsch Domains
Hyperbolic Kitsch
Design, Brand, and Store
2 Kitsch, Seduction Capitalism, and the Individualization of Consumption
Second-Level Kitsch

The Kitschization of Subjectivity
3 On Kitsch Considered as one of the Fine Arts
The Plural Aesthetics of Neo-Kitsch
The All-Art
The Institutional Acknowledgment of Kitsch
Consecration by the Art Market: Kitsch at a High Price
Bibliography
Sailing the Seas of Cheese
1 Introduction
2 Nearby Concepts
Unpleasant
Tacky
Cheap/Chintzy
Tasteless
Trite
Crass
Schlock
Corny
Cliché
Showy
3 Kitsch, Camp, and Cheese
Kitsch
Camp
Cheese
4 Some Theoretical Points About Who Cares
Intentionalism and Anti-intentionalism

The Naïve Aesthetic Theory of Art
The Paradox of Negative Art
Postmodernism
Bibliography
Kitsch in Relation to Loss
1 Characterizing Kitsch
2 Kitsch in Mourning
3 The Inevitability and Aptness of Kitsch
4 What of the Moral Objections?
Bibliography
Old Tricks for a New Dog: Toilet Humor, Politicized Kitsch, and the Trump Presidency
Bibliography
Part II: Kitsch and Culture
Kitsch and Architecture
1 Toy Style
2 Bauhaus Hawaiian
3 Pizza Tower and/or the Tower of Pizza
Bibliography

From Fashion as Kitsch to Kitsch in Fashion: Redefining Beauty and Taste Today
1 Introduction
2 Fashion as Kitsch
3 Fashion, Class, Gender, and Kitsch: Redefining Beauty and Taste Today
From Shock to Acceptance: Subversive Deconstructions
Camp, Kitsch, Queer, and the Vulgar in Fashion Exhibitions
4 When Fashion Meets (Pop) Art: Collaborations, Appropriations, Intersections
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Digital Kitsch: Art and Kitsch in the Informational Milieu
1 The Artist Looking at Kitsch
2 Kitsch Is Everything That Men Call Kitsch14
3 Digital Kitsch

4 Art and Kitsch in the Informational Milieu
5 NFTs, "Crypto Art," and Kitsch
Bibliography
Kitsch, Beauty and Artistic Practice
1 Avant-Garde and Kitsch
2 Beauty Forgotten or Dethroned?
3 Artistic Practice and Fear of Kitsch
4 Conclusion
Bibliography
Biokitsch in Art: And the Survival of the Prettiest
1 Introduction
2 Friction in Nature/Culture
3 Between Original and Fake
Flowers
4 Flora and Fauna Becoming Kitsch
5 Biokitsch
6 Conclusion: Survival of the Prettiest
Bibliography
Online References
Epilogue: What Next?

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