For shame! Don't you know it's terribly rude to kitsch and tell.
tsk, tsk
BG
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> From: "Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/07/02 Fri PM 05:04:25 EDT
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> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Kitsch
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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 (k ch)
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.]
kitsch iÂfy v.
kitschy adj. |
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kitsch
kitsch was Word of the Day on June 21,
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kitsch
adj : of a display that is tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious,
pretentious] n :
art in pretentious bad taste
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----- Original Message -----
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
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