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“Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.”

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John Bayley was an esteemed British writer known for his profound insights into literature and philosophy. His works encompassed novels, essays, and literary criticism, with his most famous work being his memoir about his marriage to Virginia Woolf. more

“The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.”

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“Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch”

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