“Kitsch is certainly not ‘bad art,’ it forms its own closed system, which is lodged like a foreign body in the overall system of art, or which, if you prefer, appears alongside it.” --Hermann Broch, 20th century Austrian art theorist and writer
Annotated bibliography:
Adorno, Theodor. Aesthetic Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Theodor Adorno, 1903--1969, was a German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist and composer who also wrote essays and books on several different topics, including social theory, aesthetics and mass media.
In Aesthetic Theory, Adorno defends both illusion and modernism and covers concepts of the sublime, ugly and beautiful within art and defines these concepts as reservoirs of human experience.
"One of the defining characteristics of kitsch may be that it simulates non-existing emotions. Kitsch neutralizes them along with the aesthetic phenomenon as a whole. Kitsch is art that cannot, or does not want to, be taken seriously, while at the same time, through its appearance, postulating aesthetic seriousness." --Theodor Adorno
How this topic relates to my work:
I've decided to drop my original concept and move on to another that deals with juxtaposing kitsch art in settings which you would normally not find them as a way to force these two parallel worlds to co-exist.
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