Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism,
Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Durham: Duke University
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KITSCH
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Earlier in century modernism victorious over pompier academicism (a form
of kitsch)
but kitsch could please and satisfy middle classes ideal of beauty
So recent reappearance of kitsch in high art
after World War II kitsch had negative prestige
Camp cultivates bad taste of yesteryear
New Camp fashion from NYC to rest of US
Art Institute of Chicago - 1974 "The Flea Market School
Kitsch can mimic avant-garde
uses avant garde as form of advertising
Kitsch and Modernity
Kitsch, Camp, and
High Art
Etymology, Contexts of Usage, and the "Law of
Aesthetic Inadequacy"
Kitsch and Romanticism
Bad Taste, Ideology, and Hedonism
Some Stylistic Considerations
Kitsch and Cultural Industrialization
The "Kitsch-Man"
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