Results 241 to 250 of about 45,251 (285)

Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture

Positions, 2022
:This article explores the ties between anti-Black racist kitsch and kawaii culture through the history of the Dakko-chan doll. In what came to be called the "Dakko-chan boom" of 1960, tens of thousands of Japanese people lined up to purchase an ...
Erica Kanesaka
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The taste of contemporaneity: is the west kitsch?

Journal for Cultural Research, 2022
As the twenty-first century begins, Benjamin’s aura as the quality of an authentic-art-object might be outdated, but the notion of kitsch remains essential in a post-Warholian world.
A. Castelli, Barbara Sonzogni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Kitsch

Sonic Overload, 2012
P. Schmelz
openaire   +2 more sources

Kitsch

2021
Chapter 5 explores contemporary Soviet anxieties about mass media and popular culture by detailing Valentin Silvestrov’s shift in the 1970s from avant-garde cacophony to a quiet, nostalgic style that he unironically called “kitsch.” During this dark economic period, when he also was persona non grata in the Ukrainian Union of Composers, Silvestrov ...
  +6 more sources

From Kitsch to Revival: The Transformation and Dissemination of Kitsch Art in the Context of Consumerism

Art Frontiers
This paper traces the historical trajectory of kitsch art and examines its roles and impacts during industrialization, media dissemination, and symbolic consumption processes. Utilizing McLuhan’s theoretical framework of "the medium is the message", this
Yuhang Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Artistic Classism and "Camp" as Critical Kitsch

Stance An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
 In the philosophy of art and art criticism, there is disagreement over whether works deemed “kitsch” can be considered art. I discuss the perspectives of two thinkers, Clement Greenberg and Robert Solomon, to elucidate the kitsch debate as ultimately an
Cass Duxbury
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Kitsch, City Planning, and New Urbanism

Space and Culture
This paper explores the role of kitsch in urban planning, its influence on disintegration and redevelopment, and how kitsch influences the functionality, identity, and social dynamics of urban spaces.
Shlomit Flint Ashery, Nurit Stadler
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Les rêveries de Jeanne et Emma : bonheur kitsch et clichés romantiques

Revue de littérature comparée
és du romantisme. Dans Une vie de Maupassant, Jeanne, au sortir du couvent, s’exalte en pensant à l’amour imminent. Dans un registre sensiblement différent, le récit de Madame Bovary de Flaubert est traversé de morceaux de rêveries, comme autant de blocs
S. Troche
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From modernism to kitsch: the aesthetics of corruption and nationalism in Bulgaria and Macedonia

Urban Geography, 2020
Since 1989, Eastern European cities have been radically refashioned, often with kitsch new buildings accompanying the introduction of market capitalism.
Max Holleran, Fabio Mattioli
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Kitsch

1981
There are two possible ways to approach the problem of kitsch; we may either attempt to describe what kitsch-objects are, or focus attention on the human attitude which enables us to judge something as kitsch. We are, therefore, confronted with two different tasks; the first one consists in investigating into properties of aesthetically deviant objects
openaire   +1 more source