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kitsch [Ger.,=trash], term most frequently applied since the early 20th cent. to works considered pretentious and tasteless. Exploitative commercial objects such as Mona Lisa scarves and abominable plaster reproductions of sculptural masterpieces are described as kitsch, as are works that claim artistic value but are weak, cheap, or sentimental. A museum of kitsch was opened in Stuttgart. |
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Perhaps the kitschiness of the flower arrangement as subject renders it transparent, stared at but unseen. There were no sculptural elements, no match-books or inscribed drinking glasses, while the more baroque facets of Lawler's sensibility--the kitschiness and Wunderkammer weirdness so evident in her snow-globe-like glass paperweights, for example--were muted. What we emphasize in Jean Fautrier, for example, is not so much the impasto, but its kitschiness. |
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