TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kulka,Thomas
TI  - Kitsch and Art
SN  - 9780271074184
AV  - NX456.5.K54 K8513 1996
U1  - 700 20
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Arts, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Kitsch
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. What Is Kitsch --; 2. Why Is Kitsch Worthless --; 3. Varieties of Kitsch --; Appendix: On the Alleged Impossibility of Defining Aesthetic Concepts --; Select Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 from art, Kulka proposes that kitsch depicts instantly identifiable, emotionally charged objects or themes, but that it does not substantially enrich our associations relating to the depicted objects or themes. He then addresses the deceptive nature of kitsch by examining the makeup of its artistic and aesthetic worthlessness. Ultimately Kulka argues that the mass appeal of kitsch cannot be regarded as aesthetic appeal, but that its analysis can illuminate the nature of art appreciation
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