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Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance: On the Changing Meaning of Kitsch in Today’s Cultural Production&nbsp;(Introduction).<div><br><div>PART I: Kitsch and Life</div><div><br>Kitsch in the Hyper-Modern Era.</div>Sailing the Seas of Cheese.</div><div>Kitsch in Relation to Loss.</div><div>Old Tricks for a New Dog: Toilet Humor, Politicized Kitsch and the Trump Presidency.</div><div><br></div>PART II:&nbsp;&nbsp;Kitsch and Culture.<div><br></div><div>Kitsch and Architecture.</div><div>From Fashion as Kitsch to Kitsch in Fashion: Redefining Beauty and Taste Today.</div>Digital Kitsch. Art and Kitsch in the Informational Milieu.<div>Kitsch, Beauty and Artistic Practice.</div><div>Biokitsch in Art: And the Survival of the Prettiest.</div><div>Epilogue: What Next?<i>.</i><br></div>

<p><b>Max Ryynänen</b>&nbsp;is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture in Aalto University (Helsinki/Espoo)</p><p><br></p><p><b>Paco Barragán</b>&nbsp;is an arts writer&nbsp;and&nbsp;curator and has earned&nbsp;an&nbsp;international PhD from the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain</p>

<div>This book inaugurates a new phase in kitsch studies. Kitsch, an aesthetic slur of the 19th and the 20th century, is increasingly considered a positive term and at the heart of today’s society. Eleven distinguished authors from philosophy, cultural studies and the arts discuss a wide range of topics including beauty, fashion, kitsch in the context of mourning, bio-art, visual arts, architecture and political kitsch. In addition, the editors provide a concise theoretical introduction to the volume and the subject. The role of kitsch in contemporary culture and society is innovatively explored and&nbsp;the volume aims not to condemn but to accept and understand why kitsch has become acceptable today.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Max Ryynänen</b>&nbsp;is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture and Head of the MA program Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in Aalto University (Helsinki/Espoo).&nbsp;<div><br></div><div><b>Paco Barragan</b>&nbsp;is an arts writer, curator and a PhD candidate at the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain</div></div>

<p>Inaugurates a new more positive phase in kitsch studies</p><p>Interdisciplinary in approach encompassing philosophy, cultural studies and the arts</p><p>Explores the new role of kitsch in contemporary culture</p>