<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A glass pyramid, a sphinx and a Medieval Excalibur, an Eiffel tower, a Statue of Liberty, a Ponte Rialto with an escalator and a canal sailed by gondolas with Mickey Mouse – these are the faces of Las Vegas. Kitsch, excess and chaos are concepts that form the universe of the semantics of Las Vegas. We can also attempt to understand this identity, distinct both in its unbridled form and the ideas represented by the city, by referring to Bakhtin’s concept of the carnival.</p></abstract>

A glass pyramid, a sphinx and a Medieval Excalibur, an Eiffel tower, a Statue of Liberty, a Ponte Rialto with an escalator and a canal sailed by gondolas with Mickey Mouse – these are the faces of Las Vegas. Kitsch, excess and chaos are concepts that form the universe of the semantics of Las Vegas. We can also attempt to understand this identity, distinct both in its unbridled form and the ideas represented by the city, by referring to Bakhtin’s concept of the carnival.

Fifty shades of Las Vegas

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A glass pyramid, a sphinx and a Medieval Excalibur, an Eiffel tower, a Statue of Liberty, a Ponte Rialto with an escalator and a canal sailed by gondolas with...

Fifty shades of Las Vegas

Publié en ligne: 23 mai 2020

Pages: 49 - 61

Reçu: 03 juin 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.060.10613

Mots clés
Las Vegas, kitsch, camp, art, architecture, city

© 2019 Beata Malinowska-Petelenz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Fifty shades of Las Vegas

Publié en ligne: 23 mai 2020

Pages: 49 - 61

Reçu: 03 juin 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.060.10613

Mots clésLas Vegas, kitsch, camp, art, architecture, city

© 2019 Beata Malinowska-Petelenz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Mots clés
Las Vegas, kitsch, camp, art, architecture, city