0 art, decorative objects, or design considered by many people to be ugly, without style, or false but enjoyed by other people, often because they are funny: --
His home's full of 1950s kitsch.
1 showy art or cheap, decorative objects that are attractive to people who are thought to lack any appreciation of style or beauty: --
These are points that one should take into view; the other is a sort of kitsch, which is stuff and nonsense.
Is the artist attacking the 'original', making it kitsch, where once it at least tried not to be?
Kitsch is the modernist plug to sentimentality and emotions, separating the artwork from feelings and re-investing it in the categories of modernist discourses.
Aesthetic terms such as 'kitsch' often connoted film's supposedly vulgar content.
Messiaen's spirituality was anything but warm and fuzzy, his style often the opposite of ingratiating, and that is what finally saves his work from kitsch.
In that example, a small reduction in the quantity of enjoyment can, as we saw, make the difference between an object of beauty and mere kitsch.
As well as being a very early musical mobilisation of kitsch, it also provides a way into the notion of a noise 'cover'.
Similarly, in the beauty example the borderline between objects of beauty and kitsch may not be precise and some objects may be borderline beautiful.
