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Las articulaciones del kitsch con la estética camp

Káñina, 2022
El propósito principal de este artículo es realizar una síntesis de las principales discusiones teóricas que han surgido sobre la presencia de la experiencia Kitsch en la cultura de masas y su articulación con la estética camp. Primero, se interpretarán
Dorde Cuvardic García
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Kitsch et mélodrame dans le film mexicain No se aceptan devoluciones de Eugenio Derbez

Amerika, 2018
This article compares and analyzes two aesthetic categories that are often negatively perceived : melodrama and kitsch, from three points of view. After a theoretical introduction, the essay contextualizes these categories within the Mexican cultural ...
Sophie Dufays
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The Folding Screen of Kitsch

Crossings, 2008
Kitsch, a relatively recent concept in Western art and literature, has given birth to a great deal of debate and discussion. Owing to a variety of descriptions it is difficult to define it. Nevertheless, it can be characterized by discussing the impacts
Shahnewaz Kabir
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Regional Kitsch

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I hereby raise a new subdivision of kitsch to become an object of philosophical reflection. While a broad variety of objects is mentioned in studies on everyday kitsch – i.e.
Max Ryynänen
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The Antinomy of Kitsch: Kitsch as an Aesthetic Category and an Aesthetic / Art-Crititical Property

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The antinomy of kitsch comprises two conflicting yet widely accepted claims: first, kitsch and art are incompatible; secondly, some art is kitsch. The key to solving this contradiction is distinguishing between kitsch as an aesthetic category and an ...
Lisa Katharin Schmalzried
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Kitsch and Morality

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Throughout the realm of aesthetics there is the general sentiment that kitsch is inherently immoral. Although kitsch itself is a relatively ambiguous term, objects falling into this category are charged with a negative ethical stigma due to their being ...
Aziz Alfailakawi
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Du kitsch en théorie

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Based on the work of Walter Benjamin, the paper focuses on the notion of kitsch, considered as a category for discourse analysis. First, it discusses several levels of analysis of kitsch in discourse. Secondly, it proceeds to a reading of Walter Benjamin’
François Provenzano
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The unveiling of life: Liturgy and the lure of kitsch

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
This article probes the classic definition of religious aesthetics as related to the notions of beauty, goodness and truth. The phenomenon of kitsch, understood as simulation (or inversion) of beauty, goodness and truth, is taken cognisance of ...
Johan Cilliers
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The Comforting Power of Kitsch. The (Esthetic) Meanders of Holocaust Literature

Zagłada Żydów, 2010
The paper is an attempt at outlining the esthetics of kitsch in Holocaust literature.  On the basis of Abraham Moles’ and  Saul Friedländer’s distinctions, the author analyses works of fiction, Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and Littel’s The ...
Aleksandra Ubertowska
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Belleza, kitsch y crítica. Por qué una obra no debe ser interpretada

Fedro, 2020
El ideal romántico de belleza se revela muy problemático por su cercanía al kitsch. Hermann Broch teorizó sobre esta tesis y concluyó que el kitsch romántico encarnaba el antivalor no solo estético, sino también moral.
Javier Pamparacuatro Martín
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