Cute, Quaint, Hungry And Romantic The Aesthetics Of Consumerism
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ISBN: 0465028489 / Publisher: Basic Books, May 2000
Explores the broad principles that define the aesthetics of pop culture and discusses how the seemingly random appearance of consumer products and advertising affects us psychologically.
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From Harris' (freelance writer, no university affiliation) introduction: "This psychic voyage into the aesthetic unconsciousness places the refuse of consumerism under a microscope and concentrates on minutiae, on the uses of the useless, the significance of the insignificant.... Each chapter defines one broad principle that governs the appearance of popular culture, of movies and Saturday morning cartoons, of posh designer clothing stores on Madison Avenue and Piggly Wigglys in suburban Tallahassee malls. The aesthetic road map that emerges, while admittedly incomplete and based on my own idiosyncratic interests, delves into the ways in which the ostensibly purposeless appearance of consumerist debris affects us psychologically, even if it serves no pragmatic function..." No index. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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