KITSCH

Παρουσίαση

The English edition of this book has been published as a guide to the foreigner who has become aware of the fact that there is another face to the traditional image of Greece, and who wishes to become further acquainted with it.
The traditional image of Greece as portrayed in travel guides and posters is that of the glories of the past combined with the picturesque aspects of the present, all designed to attract tourists whether they come in search of culture, or sunny beaches, or both.
Beyond this facade, there are many other contemporary aspects of Greek reality which come as a shock and for which at first there is no apparent explanation.
The problem of Kitsch in Greece is not entirely aesthetic. The drastic change in Greek society during the last decades aroused problems of identity and continuity. Greece was subjected to the consumer influence-tourists, television, films, fashions, goods and advertisements, all pouring in with bewildering rapidity. As a result, everything foreign was beautiful, everything desirable. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Introduction to the English Edition
A page from the "Memoirs of Hadrian" by MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
Juxtapositions
Greeting by the former Minister of Culture and Sciences
MELINA MERKOURI
Introduction by DAPHNE KOUTSIKOU
In search of aesthetic rules by HARIS KAMBOURIDIS
The Pathology of Ornament by N. HADJIKYRIAKOS-GHIKAS
THE FATHERLAND
Kitsch as a fascism-indicator by DIMITRIS RAFTOPOULOS
RELIGION
The "Unseemly Form" by CHRISTOS YANNARAS
THE HOME
When the shell broke by ALKI KYRIAKIDOU-NESTOROS
SOCIETY
Kitsch as the source of erotic bliss by HARIS KAMBOURIDIS
COMMUNICATIONS AND ART
Kitsch in advertising by DIONISSIS SKALOS
The language of kitsch in everyday usage by YANNIS KALIORIS
Kitsch Time by NIKOS SAVATIS
Produced and Directed by Kitsch by ANNY KOLTSIDOPOULOU
The Force of evil in pop music by LOUKIANOS KILAIDONIS
Let me stop here for a while and take a look at nature
Two texts by PERICLES YANNOPOULOS and DIMITRI PIKIONIS
Consent as to the "beautiful" in architecture and art by PETROS MARTINIDIS
IN CONCLUSION
Fairytale Castle
And last but not least... by BOST
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX
Bibliography
Index of Photographs