Kitsch and Art  -  Kulka, Tomas

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What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed; its aesthetic worthlessness has been generally assumed but seldom explained. Kitsch and Art seeks to give this phenomenon its due by exploring the basis of artistic evaluation and aesthetic value judgments.

Tomas Kulka examines kitsch in the visual arts, literature, music, and architecture. To distinguish kitsch ...
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2002 Uitgever: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr 137 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0271015942 ISBN-13: 9780271015941