Well - yes -- being the sensitive, insecure artistes that they are, Nerdrum and Tuv constructed a questionnaire where the default value (the one that requires no consent) puts the test-taker firmly on their side (the "kitsch" side) of the culture wars.
And if you reversed each question -- asking, for example, "Do you prefer talent and sensuality to truth" instead of "Do you prefer truth to talent and sensuality?" -- the test-taker would be identified with their perceived opponents. But the issues raised in most of the questions seem to be ones often raised here and in other forums where art is discussed. (or if they're not -- they should be. And many can also be found in this famous essay: http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/kitsch.html For a further discussion of "kitsch" - look up the Wikipedia entry - which was apparently written by one of Nerdrum's fellow travelers. It's interesting how the Wikipedia community initially recognized it as superior -- but later rescinded that judgment with the following explanation: "is filled with weasle words and what appears to be original research, editorializing, and opinion." ************ What a terrible, terrible test. Bourdieu once said that the problem with questionnaires is that they tend to produce dichotomies and opinion in theabsence 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 ? > ____________________________________________________________ Click to become an artist and quit your boring job. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijmKf63BuB8wqFfDSDlT7MlLA frANMquvMKJmv25JW2scwHIY/
