“How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch”
Source: Meaning of Modern Art
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“The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.”
Source: Meaning of Modern Art
Source: Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or
“The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.”
Source: Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or
Source: Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or
“We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.”