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Women like her bring men to their knees
With the World War II raging
This is more than the record of a lifetime's bag
The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience Annie McDermott 0970052006The Artificial Kingdom is the first book to provide a cultural history of kitsch, an immensely popular aesthetic phenomenon that has always been disdained as "bad taste," or a cheap imitation of art. Proposing instead that kitsch is the product of a larger sensibility of loss, Celeste Olalquiaga shows how it enables the momentary re creation of experiences that exist only as memories or fantasies. Simultaneously exposing and celebrating this process,
