tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post116441811107166703..comments2024-03-28T03:54:21.932-04:00Comments on Canadian Cynic: He who laughs last ...CChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11406057201126015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1164424224006265562006-11-24T22:10:00.000-05:002006-11-24T22:10:00.000-05:00Yup. Kitsch as pathology. One has to look no fur...Yup. Kitsch as pathology. One has to look no further than the <I>oeuvre</I> of a certain <I>craftsperson</I> from Delisle, Saskatchewan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1164419185944468472006-11-24T20:46:00.000-05:002006-11-24T20:46:00.000-05:00Excellent article by Blumenthal. Wordsmithing does...Excellent article by Blumenthal. Wordsmithing doesn't get much better than this:<BR/><BR/><I> Kitsch is imitative, cheap, sentimental, mawkish and incoherent, and derives its appeal by demeaning and degrading genuine standards and values, especially those of modernity. While the proponents of the faux retro style claim to uphold tradition, they are inherently reactive and parasitic, their words and products a tawdry patchwork, hastily assembled as declarations against authentic complexity and ambiguity, which they stigmatise as threats to the sanctity of an imaginary harmonious order of the past that they insist they and their works represent. Kitsch presumes to be based on old rules,<BR/>but constantly traduces them.</I>catniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10444186590009089070noreply@blogger.com