On Kitsch and Sentimentality
On Kitsch and Sentimentality
Finally, I return to the theme of sentimentality with a particular focus on art and what is often called “kitsch” I ask, as I did for sentimentality in general, What's wrong with kitsch? And I defend it, as I did for sentimentality, by suggesting that the attacks on kitsch are often not what they seem to be.
Keywords: kitsch, sentimentality, sweet kitsch, bad art, cheap art, emotions, Moral Sentiment Theory, Milan Kundera, Adolph Bouguereau, Degas, expressions of emotion, manipulating emotions, false emotions, self-indulgence, superficiality
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