(Milan) "Kundera defined kitsch as “the absolute denial of shit,” meaning it offers an airbrushed, sterilized, sentimentalized view of the world. From that, it doesn’t necessarily follow that art wallows in shit, but art doesn’t exist for the primary purpose of denying it, either. Kitsch is, first and foremost, a lie; its very existence is founded on bad faith."
And in this piece on Thomas Kinkade, in Salon, I realize this is why most of the shows on the Disney Channel that target my daughters make me want to kill infants and the elderly with my bare hands.
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