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Although I have discussed the kitsch problem in various essays over a period of time, I have preferred, for the purpose of this volume, to insert essays by other authors which fit in with my own, so as to broaden a discussion which, I feel, a single author would not have been able to develop sufficiently. So it seemed an opportune moment to reproduce two of the most important and interesting essays on kitsch, firstly one by Hermann Broch (written in 1933 and extended in 1950-1) which heralded the beginning of literature on the subject, and secondly one by Clement Greenberg, which was perhaps the first account of the relationship between kitsch and politics and was written in 1939. Besides these I also commissioned a number of authors, all among the most highly qualified international authorities on the subject, to write the more specialized chapters, such as those on architecture (Gregotti), pornography (Volli), the 'plastic parthenon’ (McHale), tourism (Giesz), cinema (L. H. Eisner), traditional kitsch (Cele- bonovic), etc.

Author

Gillo Dorfles

Publisher

Studio Vista

Published

1979

Language

EN