“Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.”
Quote by Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin, born on July 15, 1892, and died on September 26, 1940, was a prominent German literary critic whose works profoundly influenced 20th-century literary criticism and cultural theory. more
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