Kitsch?
Definition: (Dictionary.com)
What is your idea of kitsch? over-ornamentalised? a collage of classical motifs or elements that are disjointed? can a modern adaptation of lets says Meis and Le Corbusier be a kitsch space?
- noun something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
- Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" (William H. Gass).
What is your idea of kitsch? over-ornamentalised? a collage of classical motifs or elements that are disjointed? can a modern adaptation of lets says Meis and Le Corbusier be a kitsch space?
write what your definition of kitsch is and why it interests you... its quite an open term, but that simply means its just waiting for you to appropriate it. For me its an absence of intelectual moralisation of aesthetics... essentialy tastes defined by judgements and values outside of the good-taste mainstream. It is distinct from camp... kitsch cant be ironic. Camp is from within the mainstream, otherwise its just kitsch.
So whats your definition?