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"Walking the Line": Kitsch, Class and the Morphing Subject of Value [PDF]

, 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☆

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

Medienimpulse, 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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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific 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
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The kitsch dimension of paleoart

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

ESPES
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
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The Story of a Certain Illusion: Theories of Kitsch and “The Double Life of Veronique” by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Kwartalnik Filmowy, 2013
In the first part of the article the author presents three theories of kitsch: Hermann Broch’s, Abraham Moles’ and Milan Kundera’s. These form the theoretical basis for the analysis of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique, which forms the
Agnieszka Morstin
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The kitsch is cult [PDF]

, 2010
Com mais de um século de existência, a palavra kitsch ainda é confundida com brega. O conceito de kitsch ganhou uma dimensão que foi além do conceito de arte.
Sega, Christina Maria Pedrazza
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 259-272, March 2026.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Souvenir shopping in Switzerland: A qualitative analysis of travel blogs and its implications for the souvenir trade [PDF]

, 2009
Tourism shopping represents an impressive investment by tourists in terms of the time and money involved. In an inductive approach based on case-studies, travel blog entries of tourists who had recently visited Switzerland were analysed, leading to a ...
Temperley, J
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