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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