{"product_id":"the-great-kitschification-suzanne-visser-9781764169042","title":"The Great Kitschification: Why AI Will Never Be Good At Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essays gathered in \u003cem\u003eThe Great Kitschification\u003c\/em\u003e are an aesthetic diagnosis, surgically precise and intellectually generous, of true art versus the simulation of art called kitsch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Visser ties together the sensibilities of artists who could never be mistaken for kitsch to extract from their work something elemental: the stubborn trace of a human at risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are the ground of Suzanne's claim: that art is not reducible to output, but emerges from a condition of attention no machine can replicate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisser shows how easily an aesthetic of abundance-instant variation, infinite remix-can flood the eye while starving the soul. What is lost, she argues, is not originality per se, but orientation: the slow attunement that links gesture to meaning and maker to world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays invite, with uncommon clarity, a form of looking that resists the quick reward. The defense of authenticity here is not moralistic. It is procedural. Visser asks: How was this made? By whom? Under what constraints? These questions are not barriers to appreciation, but its preconditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does this matter now? Because we stand at a moment when the apparatus of imitation is accelerating faster than our ability to discern what is being lost. Visser's book argues for human specificity. For the value of friction. For the slowness of bodies and hands, and the imperfect echo of memory in material. What is offered here is not a doctrine, but a form of resistance-not anti-AI, but pro-art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzanne Visser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1764169042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764169042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clear Mind Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d","brand":"Suzanne Visser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874473554175,"sku":"9781764169042","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-kitschification-suzanne-visser-9781764169042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}