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Kitsch
"Good taste is the enemy of art."
Only the very worst in artkitsch, sexkitsch, litkitsch, adkitsch and living kitsch has been selected for the true kitsch connoisseur. It may be that some people do not know what kitsch is. Scholarly essays have been written discussing the psychology of kitsch, kitsch as a subversive force undermining the consumer orientated society which has produced it, kitsch as a sociological indicator to mass culture. This book contributes nothing to these deep discussions.
Believing that the best definition is example, Jacques Sternberg has selected hundreds of examples, words and pictures, from every source and from every country, proving that kitsch is international and interdenominational, a positive force for cultural and aesthetic enjoyment. And although there are as many definitions of kitsch as there are people to define it, it can always be recognized.
Only the very worst in artkitsch, sexkitsch, litkitsch, adkitsch and living kitsch has been selected for the true kitsch connoisseur. It may be that some people do not know what kitsch is. Scholarly essays have been written discussing the psychology of kitsch, kitsch as a subversive force undermining the consumer orientated society which has produced it, kitsch as a sociological indicator to mass culture. This book contributes nothing to these deep discussions.
Believing that the best definition is example, Jacques Sternberg has selected hundreds of examples, words and pictures, from every source and from every country, proving that kitsch is international and interdenominational, a positive force for cultural and aesthetic enjoyment. And although there are as many definitions of kitsch as there are people to define it, it can always be recognized.
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1972
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