kitsch

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1. kitsch - Noun

2. kitsch - Adjective

Meaning

excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste

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The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. Clement Greenberg

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says How nice to see children running on the grass The second tear says How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. Milan Kundera

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. Milan Kundera

We can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse. Milan Kundera

Sabina's initial inner revolt against Communism was aesthetic rather than ethical in character. What repelled her was not nearly so much the ugliness of the Communist world (ruined castles transformed into cow sheds) as the mask of beauty it tried to wear - in other words, Communist kitsch. Milan Kundera

Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. Milan Kundera

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