Kitsch Encyclopedia by Sara Cwynar
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Published by Blonde Art Books (2014) Kitsch Encyclopedia is a book project by Sara Cwynar of original and appropriated images and text. The publication brings together writings by Milan Kundera, Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, as well as Cwynar’s writing to formulate a relationship of kitsch to images. Kundera considers kitsch to be a categorizing 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. £27.00 
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