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“We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.”

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Karsten Harries, born on January 25, 1937, is a mysterious figure whose profession is currently unknown. Limited information is available about his life and contributions. 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.”

“Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?”

Firsts Steps Hollywood Accomplish First Steps Wagner

Author:Slavoj Žižek

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

Verge Kitsch

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.”

Wells Might Certain Values Asks Religious Fate Becoming Patriotic Sentiments Aesthetic Mystical Sentimental Monument Evoke Adapted Kitsch Unforeseen

Author:Gillo Dorfles

“If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'”

Ifs Ideas Age Found Church Fundamentals University Architecture Rome Embodiment Victorian Moscow Capitol Kitsch

Author:Hermann Broch

“One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.”

Situation Extremes Characteristics Sentimental Kitsch

Author:Saul Friedlander

“Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.”

World Myth Aesthetic Kitsch Unfathomable

Author:Saul Friedlander

“There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.”

Lasts Night Sleep Example Sweet Scene Transformed Good Night Kitsch Sweet Sleep

Author:Saul Friedlander

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