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Kitsch Books
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The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.09 — 130 ratings — published 1998
Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.83 — 100 ratings — published 1968
The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,853,352 ratings — published 1996
Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.11 — 576 ratings — published 2011
P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.04 — 399,288 ratings — published 2004
Kitchen Kitsch: Vintage Food Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published 2002
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,818,558 ratings — published 2012
Safe Haven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.22 — 403,575 ratings — published 2010
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.10 — 552,639 ratings — published 1984
Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.06 — 394 ratings — published 1987
Kitsch in Sync: A Consumer's Guide to Bad Taste (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.64 — 25 ratings — published 1994
Kitsch Deluxe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published 2003
The Best of Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.99 — 195,782 ratings — published 2010
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,385,522 ratings — published 2005
Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.93 — 189 ratings — published 2005
Encyclopedia of Bad Taste (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.97 — 237 ratings — published 1990
The New Roadside America: The Modern Traveler's Guide to the Wild and Wonderful World of America's Tourist Attractions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.01 — 188 ratings — published 1992
Fifties Style: Then and Now (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published 1993
Joys of Jell-O: Gelatin Dessert (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.68 — 31 ratings — published 1962
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,685 ratings — published 1986
Yes You Can: Timeless Advice from Self-Help Experts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.11 — 9 ratings — published 2000
Kitsch, More than Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 2011
Some Call It Kitsch, Masterpieces of Bourgeois Realism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 1974
Putin Kitsch in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,960,922 ratings — published 2021
The American Roommate Experiment (Love Deception, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.78 — 272,471 ratings — published 2022
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,602,468 ratings — published 2022
70s House: A bold homage to the most daring decade in design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.94 — 89 ratings — published
Zap! Ray Gun Classics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.08 — 13 ratings — published 1991
Consider Me (Playing For Keeps, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.82 — 239,959 ratings — published 2022
70s Style & Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.13 — 23 ratings — published 2009
People We Meet on Vacation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,825,197 ratings — published 2021
The Time of My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,661 ratings — published 2011
Love, Rosie (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,564 ratings — published 2004
Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.22 — 144 ratings — published
Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,506 ratings — published 2016
Skullture: Skulls in Contemporary Visual Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.12 — 16 ratings — published 2015
Popular Skullture: The Skull Motif in Pulps, Paperbacks, and Comics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.64 — 39 ratings — published 2014
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,465 ratings — published 1957
The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.64 — 143,169 ratings — published 2014
Paint by Number: How to Craze That Swept the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 3.85 — 40 ratings — published 2001
Roadside Paradise: The Golden Age of Florida's Tourist Attractions, 1929-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2000
Car Hops and Curb Service: A History of American Drive-In Restaurants 1920-1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.25 — 20 ratings — published 1996
Shelf Space: Modern Package Design 1945-1965 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published 1998
Exotiquarium: Album Art from the Space Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1999
Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.27 — 30 ratings — published 1996
Mai-Kai: History and Mystery of the Iconic Tiki Restaurant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.43 — 49 ratings — published
The Book of Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.41 — 264 ratings — published 2000
Weeki Wachee Springs (Images of America: Florida)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.02 — 42 ratings — published 2006
Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. One (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as kitsch)
avg rating 4.23 — 496 ratings — published 1993
“Waar het hart spreekt, is het onbehoorlijk dat het verstand iets tegenwerpt. in het rijk van de kitsch heerst de dictatuur van het hart.
Het door kitsch opgeroepen gevoel moet uiteraard dusdanig zijn dat massa's dat kunnen delen. Kitsch kan daarom nooit stoelen op een bijzondere situatie, maa rop basisbeelden die in het geheugen van de mensen zijn gegrift: ondankbare dochter, in de steek gelaten vader, kinderen die over een grasveld rennnen, verraden vaderland, herinnering aan de eerste liefde.
Kitsch wekt vlak achter elkaar twee tranen van ontroering. De eerste traan zegt: Wat mooi, kinderen die over een grasveld rennen!
De tweede traan zegt: Wat mooi om samen met het hele mensdom ontroerd te zijn door kinderen die over een grasveld rennen!
De tweede traan mat kitsch pas tot kitsch.
Broederschap van alle mensen op aarde kan alleen gebaseerd zijn op kitsch.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Het door kitsch opgeroepen gevoel moet uiteraard dusdanig zijn dat massa's dat kunnen delen. Kitsch kan daarom nooit stoelen op een bijzondere situatie, maa rop basisbeelden die in het geheugen van de mensen zijn gegrift: ondankbare dochter, in de steek gelaten vader, kinderen die over een grasveld rennnen, verraden vaderland, herinnering aan de eerste liefde.
Kitsch wekt vlak achter elkaar twee tranen van ontroering. De eerste traan zegt: Wat mooi, kinderen die over een grasveld rennen!
De tweede traan zegt: Wat mooi om samen met het hele mensdom ontroerd te zijn door kinderen die over een grasveld rennen!
De tweede traan mat kitsch pas tot kitsch.
Broederschap van alle mensen op aarde kan alleen gebaseerd zijn op kitsch.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“It is almost as difficult for a Scots intellectual to get out of the Kailyard as to live without an alias. The dilemma is not just an intellectual's one... the whole thing is related to the much larger field of popular culture. For Kailyard is popular in Scotland. It is recognisably intertwined with that prodigious array of Kitsch symbols, slogans, banners, war-cries, knick-knacks, music-hall heroes, icons, conventional sayings and sentiments (not a few of them 'pithy') which have for so long defended the name of 'Scotland' to the world. Annie S. Swan and A.J. Cronin provided no more than the decent outer garb for this vast tartan monster. In their work the thing trots along doucely enough, on a lead. But it is something else to be with it (e.g.) in a London pub on International night, or in the crowd at the annual Military Tattoo in front of Edinburgh Castle. How intolerably vulgar! What unbearable, crass, mindless philistinism! One knows that Kitsch is a large constituent of mass popular culture in every land: but this is ridiculous!”
― The Break Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism
― The Break Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism
