Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index.
Contents:
Manuel Puig and conceptual art -- Brazilian tropicalism -- Kitsch and mass culture in postmodernism ; Kitsch as demarcation of social barriers and class ; Kitsch and conceptions of taste ; Emotion x commotion : the Frankfurt School ; Art x kitsch ; Mass culture : a French analysis ; Mass culture : the U.S. case ; Pop art and the concept of camp ; Kitsch, cursi, and camp as aesthetic devices -- Luis Rafael Sanchez : dandyism in the Twentieth Century -- Severo Sarduy : a post-everything author -- Haroldo de Campos : the incorporation of orality.
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