Taste Meets Kitsch

Taste Meets Kitsch

Vol 15 no 4, 1995


Guest editor Juliette Peers. A bold and challenging issue that examines taste and kitsch, art beyond the 'canon', real Australian bad taste, Aboriginality and kitsch, kitschophrenia, ritual, rites and performance, fairies, dolls and trading cards. Only for the really bold!


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Not Afraid of Flying: Fairies and Femocrats

Author: Ms Anita Calloway, feature

Are gossamer wings set to supplant shoulder pads as signifiers of feminist power? Shopping malls in middle class suburbs are now sprouting fairy shops where, for only a few dollars, little girls and grown-up ones too, can sprout fairy wings that temporarily release them from the masculine world around them.



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