Status Updates From Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste

revivalism, puritanism, fascism.

...here, one of the peaks of the book, despite a sense of Platonism throughout. These keywords above touch today's reality.

politics and kitsch.. .looks like the core of the book's purpose.

The artist who limits himself merely to a search for new areas of beauty creates sensations, not art. Art is made up of intuitions about reality, and is superior to kitsch solely thanks to these intuitions. -- said Broch.

Philosophizing is always a game of pres­tige played with the clouds, says H. Broch.

Hermann Broch and Clement Greenberg on kitsch, inter alia... Quite interesting, or suggestive, at any rate