Comments on: A Brief History of Kitsch http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/history-kitsch/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/history-kitsch/comment-page-1/#comment-12 uberVU - social comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:48:35 +0000 http://www.escapeintolife.com/?p=2373#comment-12 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by KateSherrod: Check out "A Brief History of Kitsch" awesome essay http://bit.ly/3r96Lx... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: Tony Thomas http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/history-kitsch/comment-page-1/#comment-5456 Tony Thomas Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:43:00 +0000 http://www.escapeintolife.com/?p=2373#comment-5456 Nice article. The extraordinary is always defined by the ordinary, as good taste is defined by bad. Immediate, intuitive aesthetic judgment becomes modified by the received judgments of history and current fashion, so no absolutes are possible, only a statistical swamp of ever changing opinion. Nice article. The extraordinary is always defined by the ordinary, as good taste is defined by bad. Immediate, intuitive aesthetic judgment becomes modified by the received judgments of history and current fashion, so no absolutes are possible, only a statistical swamp of ever changing opinion.

]]> By: Chip Schwartz http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/history-kitsch/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Chip Schwartz Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:54:52 +0000 http://www.escapeintolife.com/?p=2373#comment-6 It is quite curious that something as established and culturally tested as Picasso can still elicit such harsh emotions from so many people. I think a great deal of people merely fail to realize that all art is, at its base, an abstraction (à la "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"). Also, the "t"/"T" analysis sounds rather familiar. Was this a nod to another writer or philosopher? It is quite curious that something as established and culturally tested as Picasso can still elicit such harsh emotions from so many people. I think a great deal of people merely fail to realize that all art is, at its base, an abstraction (à la “Ceci n'est pas une pipe”). Also, the “t”/”T” analysis sounds rather familiar. Was this a nod to another writer or philosopher?

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