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Il desiderio Kitsch: i troppi paradisi di Walter Siti

open access: yesBetween, 2013
Cosa ne è del desiderio all’interno del Kitsch, sistema in cui la vita è vissuta come uno spot pubblicitario e l’identità come una eterna performance? In una dimensione utopistica in cui l’uomo non cerca altro che una continua soddisfazione come possono ...
Ornella Tajani
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"Walking the Line": Kitsch, Class and the Morphing Subject of Value [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Kitsch, once reviled as the enemy of art and friend of the fascist, has recently entered a new phase of its life-course. Its appearance in art galleries and upon metropolitan sideboards has led many to conclude that taste hierarchies have been undone and

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The Incarnational Aesthetic of David Brown☆

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The notion of incarnation has historically been a prominent concept for the acceptance of images and the interpretation of art within Christianity. A contemporary proponent of this line of reasoning about the theological potential of art is David Brown, who builds his theology of culture on the doctrine of incarnation. This article presents an
Filip Taufer
wiley   +1 more source

Rezension: Der Unernst des Kitsches. Die Ästhetik des laxen Blicks auf die Welt

open access: yesMedienimpulse, 2016
Den Kitsch-Begriff gibt es bereits seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Da in der bisherigen Forschung vor allem versucht wurde, eine Definition und einen einheitlichen Maßstab für Kitsch zu finden, fragt Yushin Ra nun erstmals nach einem besonderen Aspekt ...
Bianca Burger
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The kitsch dimension of paleoart

open access: yesArte, individuo y sociedad
Much of the discourse on aesthetic theory can be articulated around an emerging artistic discipline called paleoart. The kitsch phenomenon, which has been extensively discussed in the realm of general art theory, can intrude into areas where aesthetic ...
G. Amorós, José S. Carrión
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

A case for kitsch

open access: yesArts & Communication
Kitsch and art are often seen as opposites. However, by showing culturally different perspectives on the phenomenon of kitsch, the term itself can be revealed as undefinable and ethnocentric. After looking at the common definition of kitsch and its vague
M. Jerrentrup
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ethnic Populism and Bad Taste: Exploring the Kitschification of Slovak Folklore

open access: yesESPES
This study is a_compilation of notes on the concept of folkloric kitsch, understood as a_secondary aesthetic product of modernism that specifically participates in shared feelings of national pride in Central European countries.
Jana Migašová
doaj   +1 more source

Sentimentalismo e kitsch: pontos cegos no modernismo artístico

open access: yesHistória: Debates e Tendências, 2019
Na visão histórica de Clemente Greenberg, o modernismo é caracterizado pelo “purismo”, ou seja, pela recusa de agentes contaminantes na constituição das formas específicas de arte.
Gerson Luís Trombetta
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Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The article investigates various approaches to seascape in selected poems of the contemporary Irish poet, Derek Mahon, set against the background of references to Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney or Odysseus Elytis.
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