What a terrible, terrible test. Bourdieu once said that the problem with questionnaires is that they tend to produce dichotomies and opinion in the absence of any actual dichotomy or opinion. This test is polemical in precisely this regard: its very language is weighted against 'modernism' and based on a misreading of the individuals mentioned at the bottom. Given the wording and mistaken presuppositions of the questions (above all that modernism = exclusively pop-art/postmodern pastiche, i.e. purely conceptual art), it strikes me as almost impossible not to answer 'no' to most of the questions. Boooo for this test. It shows nothing, save how to manufacture opinion by presenting straw-characterizations in sound-bites.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I've just taken the kitsch test compiled by Odd Nerdrum and friend: > > http://janovetuv.com/bruker/articles/Questionnaire_E%2044-45.pdf > > > And passed it with flying colors! (not 100% -- but close) > > However, I do wonder about the testers' claim that now I am a real > kitsch-person (as opposed to a true artist) according to: > > Broch, Calinescu, Greenberg, Kulka, Kundera, Ortega y Gasset > > Can anyone confirm or dispute that ? > > ____________________________________________________________ > Be a professional. Click here to earn a psychology degree. > > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijnep3wBhY0HpdBTRwsxFf5GP > MKlgyWHSZZfae05YUvq6mCKA/<http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijnep3wBhY0HpdBTRwsxFf5GPMKlgyWHSZZfae05YUvq6mCKA/>
