kitsch
Apparently I have to read this article Daniel Tiffany wrote about kitsch as the parasite in the body of the avant-garde. In response to my last entry on the Genius Child Orchestra, someone sent me some excerpts from that essay, including this:
'Kitsch is lodged like a foreign body in the overall system of art'... it is 'the element of evil in the value system of art... its relationship to art can be compared--and this is more than a mere metaphor-- to the relationship between the system of the Anti-Christ and the sytem of Christ'.'
[Note: I didn't understand the note sent to me. Tiffany quotes Hermann Brosch, who, typifying the high modernist view of kitsch, makes this argument, setting the stage for Greenberg &Co.]
'Kitsch is lodged like a foreign body in the overall system of art'... it is 'the element of evil in the value system of art... its relationship to art can be compared--and this is more than a mere metaphor-- to the relationship between the system of the Anti-Christ and the sytem of Christ'.'
[Note: I didn't understand the note sent to me. Tiffany quotes Hermann Brosch, who, typifying the high modernist view of kitsch, makes this argument, setting the stage for Greenberg &Co.]
posted by Johannes at 2:53 PM
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'Kitsch is lodged like a green-milk-carrot in the overall Üranus of art'... it is 'the element of livevil in the value system of art... its relationship to art can be compared--and this is more than a mere metaphor-- to the relationship between the system of the Brutus and the sytem of Popeye'.'
Jesus (no pun intended). I'd have to see the justification for that - it's a massive call.
Yes, you do. It's called "Kitsching the Cantos." Remind me to send you the PDF.
Just to note that Tiffany's book Infidel Poetics is terrific, best book on poetics since Blasing's Lyric Poetry.
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