Kitsch is a conflicted term"hard to strictly define, but as with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's joke about pornography, one knows it when one sees it. For the purchasers of kitsch in nineteenth-century Munich, reproductions of elaborate and intricate decoration were a means of class ascension. But they also signaled a type of bourgeoisie cluelessness […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM on July 31, 2020