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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Kitsch"”.
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Odd Nerdrum, Kitsch & Modernity
<p>This paper will evaluate the value of bad art, calling into question the function of aesthetic experience as defined philosophically, psycho-socially and ethically. We shall find that bad art serves an important artistic and aesthetic, social and economic role in our globalized modern culture. …
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A Neo-Tolstoyan Response to Kitsch
… to result in a neo-Tolstoyan aesthetic. Although kitsch proves difficult to define and the variety of existing definitions are examined, Clement Greenberg’s understanding of kitsch particularly challenges Tolstoy’s aesthetic through denouncing features of art which Tolstoy celebrates. A conception …
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Contemporary Kitsch: An examination through creative practice
… examines the theoretical concept of contemporary kitsch within a creative practice that incorporates sculptural and installation art. Kitsch is a distinct aesthetic style. Once designated to the rubbish bin of culture, kitsch was considered to be low class, bad taste cheap fakes and copies …
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Kitsch in the prose works of Theodor Storm.
… of literary evaluation in general and of kitsch in particular, and, on the other, to analyse the prose works of Theodor Storm in the light of the theories of literary evaluation thus established. It therefore follows that the investigation falls into two main sections. The first is in …
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… and (re)conceptualizing the concept of kitsch as a theoretical construct in order to investigate the dream-worlds of Europe which sprang at the intersection of liberalism, social democracy and capitalism. I argue that the unexplored potentialities of kitsch, as a concept, reside in the …
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Edge as place : building a community link in Boston's Chinatown
… community without applying the usual "pagoda" kitsch? This thesis takes Boston 2000, a urban development plan for the Central Artery Project, as a starting point for an exploration on the above design problems with special attention paid to the roles urban context and cultural issues play on …
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A Resort in Provincetown, Massachusetts: Rethinking Tourism on Cape Cod with a Regionalist and Sustainable Response
… with universalized solutions or referential kitsch. A regionalist response produces a better solution; this approach takes into consideration the embedded qualities of place and considers the site's physical, natural, and cultural environments and histories. Provincetown, Massachusetts on …
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He Who Rules "Cinema" Rules Everything: Kalimán as Bridge Between 1960s and 1970s Mexican Cinema
… periods: the 1960s, characterized by camp and kitsch, and the 1970s, which emphasized innovation and experimentation, aspects often neglected by academia’s account of Mexico’s Film History.</p>
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One Million Paintings 2005-2007: A Thesis
… to the Bilds projects such as the Cutllages, the Kitsch Paintings, Soap Drawings, Text Tubes, and List Drawings investigate different ways to transform the found object into painting.While my work is formalist it is decidedly post-modernist in its embodiment of the qualities described by Craig …
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Over, Then Over Again, Over: A Poetics of Disorder
… applies aesthetics of cuteness and girly kitsch to critique the essentialist identities of patriarchal and ableist systems. The project engages, through scholarly, poetic, and asemic writings, identities as contingent, performed acts and embodied, lived experiences. In a master narrative …
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Rebuilding the Rainbow Bridge: A study of the historical development of Nordicism and its evolving relationship with Modernity
… in various modern forms, whether as Viking 'kitsch' or the malignant offshoots of White Supremacism.
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Little Egypt: A Critical Biography
… <p>Created in scandal and transformed into a kitsch amusement, Little Egypt may not often be remembered today, but elements of her legacy are still present in current popular culture. She helped create the immediately recognizable image of the belly dancer in her two-piece costume, and Little …
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The New Manila Sound: Music and Mass Culture, 1990s and Beyond
… content and aesthetics. The scene’s trademark kitsch qualities of parody, humour, and exaggeration served as forms of diversion to au- diences recovering from the turbulent dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos from 1965 to 1986, when musical works primarily comprised of state-commissioned …
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La Villa de las Tres Cuturas: A Study of a New Tourist Festival in Frigiliana, al-Ándalus
… blood into “plural” blood. It contends that the kitsch plastic realm of proletarian tourism realises the potential for social change. During this commercial process, Festival Frigiliana 3 Culturas creates a new ethnicity called al-Ándalus and it is the commercial component within the event that …
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Rockin' the Comstock: Exploring the Unlikely and Underappreciated Role of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Northern Nevada Ghost Town (Virginia City) in the Development of the 1960s Psychedelic Esthetic and "San Francisco Sound"
… -- increasingly alienated by crowds and kitsch -- fled for their eccentric lives. Comstock business owners, nonetheless, spun fabulous legends, independent of any facts, transforming their city and its history. In 1965, however, real legends arrived. Fifty long-haired Bay Area Hipsters …
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The Maritime Revival: Antimodernity, class, and culture, 1870--1940
… A variety of cultural forms, from fine arts to kitsch and advertisements, diffused the ideas of the Maritime Revival throughout American culture to people of all social classes.</p><p>Not every piece of cultural output associated with ships and the sea, nor every aspect of contemporary maritime …
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