Kitsch

Provocation: “A Defense of Christian Kitsch” by Paul Griffiths

From “A Defense of Christian Kitsch” by Paul Griffiths The term kitsch is usually intended as an insult. To call a painting or a musical composition or a piece of decorative art “kitschy” suggests that it’s crude, cheap, unsophisticated, unoriginal, mass-produced, and above all sentimental. It’s Norman Rockwell’s urchins, Soviet-era statues of heroic workers, angels …

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On Kitsch

Milan Kundera, Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: how nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. Milan Kundera, The …

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