Kitsch Encyclopedia
Hardcover | First edition of 1000 | Signed copy | 189 pages
Published by Blonde Art Books, 2014.
Kitsch Encyclopedia is a book project that brings together writings by Milan Kundera, Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, as well as my own writing to formulate a relationship of kitsch to images. Kundera considers kitsch to be a categorising phenomenon: a means through which complex human experience is distilled to simple, sentimental motifs. All three writers discuss a similar circumstance of the contemporary image world: the way that our culture of images, especially in the age of the internet, provides an Idealised, kitsch-based image world that exists on top of the real world and in many ways has subsumed it. - Sara Cwynar
Published by Blonde Art Books, 2014.
Kitsch Encyclopedia is a book project that brings together writings by Milan Kundera, Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, as well as my own writing to formulate a relationship of kitsch to images. Kundera considers kitsch to be a categorising phenomenon: a means through which complex human experience is distilled to simple, sentimental motifs. All three writers discuss a similar circumstance of the contemporary image world: the way that our culture of images, especially in the age of the internet, provides an Idealised, kitsch-based image world that exists on top of the real world and in many ways has subsumed it. - Sara Cwynar