Kitsch
Subtitle: The World of Bad Taste
By: Gillo Dorfles ; with contributions by John McHale [and others] and essays by Hermann Broch and Clement Greenberg; [translated from the Italian]
Contributors: McHale, John.
Publisher: Bell Publishing Co.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Kitsch.
Work titles: Kitsch.
Notes: Translation of Il Kitsch.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Author's note
title: 7; label: Introduction
title: 9; label: Kitsch
title: 13; label: Myth and kitsch
title: 37; label: Notes on the problem of kitsch (Hermann Broch)
title: 49; label: Monuments
title: 77; label: Transpositions
title: 85; label: The Betrothed and Co.
title: 88; label: Leonardo and India in Los Angeles
title: 94; label: The plastic parthenon (John McHale)
title: 98; label: Politics
title: 111; label: The avant-garde and kitsch (Clement Greenberg)
title: 116; label: Birth and the family
title: 127; label: Death
title: 133; label: Religious trappings
title: 139; label: Christian kitsch (Karl Pawek)
title: 143; label: Tourism and nature
title: 151; label: Kitsch-man as tourist (Ludwig Giesz)
title: 156; label: Advertising
title: 175; label: The film
title: 193; label: Kitsch in the cinema (Lotte H. Eisner)
title: 197; label: Porno kitsch and morals
title: 219; label: Pornography and pornokitsch (Ugo Volli)
title: 224; label: Styling and architecture
title: 251; label: Kitsch and architecture (Vittorio Gregotti)
title: 255; label: Traditional kitsch
title: 277; label: Notes on traditional kitsch (Aleksa Celebonovic)
title: 280; label: Conclusion
title: 291; label: Bibliography
title: 303; label: List of illustrations
title: 305; label: Index
title: 309