Karsten Harries Quotes

• Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

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  Successful, Kitsch, Painting

  Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

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• The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

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  Artist, Reality, Kitsch

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• The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

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  Needs, Kitsch, Emotion

  Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.79, Northwestern University Press

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• To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.

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  Art, Kitsch, Moral

  Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

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• We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

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  Struggle, Past, Kitsch

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• How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

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  Despair, Kitsch, Easy

  Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

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• The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

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  Want, Kitsch, Enchanted

  Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

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• Not all kitsch is sweet.

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  Sweet, Kitsch

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