Kitsch Quote by Mike Curran Download Open image “Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.” — Mike Curran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kitsch Modern Modern world World
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as… — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
