Submitted by Madeleine Resuehr (Hamburg - Germany)
kitsch
kitsch
kitsch is German and is defined as art or objets d’art characterized by worthless pretentiousness; the qualities associated with such art or artifacts. The Partisan Review in 1939 added what seems to me a useful comment: 'Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations. Kitsch changes according to style, but remains always the same. Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times.'
ACCESS_POST_ACTIONS
Signature: Jonathon Green
ACCESS_END_OF_TOPIC