Re: FLUXLIST: Kitsch

[Allan]

ï Dawg!   You know they gonna gang up on you. They gonna take your words, swirl 'em around in them little lime licked lips, and spit 'em back at you so fast and so hard that you gonna fall right over.   Oh my.   3 entries found for kitsch. kitsch    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kch) n. Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: âWhen money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitschâ (William H. Gass). An example or examples of kitsch. adj. Of, being, or characterized by kitsch: âThe kitsch kitchen... has aqua-and-white gingham curtains and rubber duck-yellow walls painted in a fried-egg motifâ (Suzanne Cassidy). [German, probably of dialectal origin.] kitschiÂfy v. kitschy adj. [Download or Buy Now] Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright  2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. kitsch kitsch was Word of the Day on June 21, 2000. Source: Dictionary.com Word of the Day kitsch adj : of a display that is tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious, pretentious] n : art in pretentious bad taste Source: WordNet  1.6,  1997 Princeton University ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:24 PM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Kitsch In a message dated 7/2/04 6:52:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To make something kitsch is âto render worthless, to affect with sentimentality and vulgarityâ. Now that Iâve answered your question, Iâd like to turn the question around to ask you something, Madawg. Do you feel that the work of artists like Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Brecht, Mieko Shiomi, Ken Friedman, or Robert Watts is kitsch? Do you feel that their work is âcharacterized by worthless pretentiousnessâ? I dont know that I agree with that definition of Kitsch. Certainly the people making Kitsch dont see it as worthless. People who make Kitsch generally arent being pretentious-they are being authentic. It's the cultural elite who judge it so.      No I wouldnt say the above mentioned artists were making Kitsch and you are right in that musicians who play works of long ago artists arent considered Kitsch. However Kitsch seems to be reserved for visual artists.                               Madawg