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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

Karsten Harries
Successful, Kitsch, Painting
Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

Karsten Harries
Artist, Reality, Kitsch

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

Karsten Harries
Needs, Kitsch, Emotion
Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.79, Northwestern University Press

To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.

Karsten Harries
Art, Kitsch, Moral
Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

Karsten Harries
Struggle, Past, Kitsch

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

Karsten Harries
Despair, Kitsch, Easy
Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

Karsten Harries
Want, Kitsch, Enchanted
Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

Not all kitsch is sweet.

Karsten Harries
Sweet, Kitsch

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