kitsch

kitsch

kitsch (uncountable)

1. Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.
   • 1939, Clement Greenberg, ""Avant Garde and Kitsch"", The Partisan Review,

     Because it can be turned out mechanically, kitsch has become an integral part of our productive system in a way in which true culture could never be, except accidentally.

kitsch (comparative kitscher or more kitsch, superlative kitschest or most kitsch)

1. Said especially of art and decor that is considered of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
   • 1989, Graham Greene, Yours etc: Letters to the Press 1945-1989, ISBN 1871061229, p. 243,

     […] a picture of lemur-eyed children of the sort one sees in the kitscher sort of Italian restaurant […]

   • 1996, Robert Silberman, ""The stuff of art: Judy Onofrio"", American Craft, Jun/Jul 1996, pp. 40-45,

     Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity.

   • 2005, Ronald Frame, ""Critical Paranoia"", Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2005, p. 285,

     I recognized her at once even though she wasnt wearing the tweed hunting outfit and the kitsch headwear.

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Altri significati:

of questionable aesthetic value

Said especially of art and decor that is considered of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.

Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.

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