What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times. Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that …
"What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times. Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that…
Bibliografie : p. 129-133. - Met reg. What is kitsch? Examination of kitsch in the visual arts, literature, music and architecture. Ways to distinguish kitsch from art: the deceptive nature of kitsch by examining the makeup of its artistic and aesthetic worthlessness. Kitsch doe…
What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed; its aesthetic worthlessness has been generally assumed but seldom explained. Kit…
In this work, social critic Thomas Frank examines the morphing of the language of democracy into the jargon of the marketplace. He traces an idea he calls "market populism"--The notion that markets are, in some transcendent way, identifiable with democracy and the will of the pe…