Look up: kitsch

1. 
   Kitsch
   Pretentious, low-quality work which is 'thrown together'.
   Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of
   
   
2. 
   kitsch
   [n] - art in pretentious bad taste
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
3. 
   Kitsch
   Kitsch is the German word for trash. Sometime in the 1920s it came into use in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms of popular and commercial culture. In 1939, the American art critic Clement Greenberg published a famous essay titled 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch'. In it he defined kitsch and examined its relationship to t ...
   Found on http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/gloss
   
   
4. 
   kitsch
   noun art in pretentious bad taste
   Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
   
   
5. 
   Kitsch
   `Kitsch` is a term of German or Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an existing style. The term is also used more loosely in referring to any art that is pretentious to the point of being in bad taste, and also commercially produced items that are considered trite or crass. Because the word was brought into use as a response to a large amount of art in the 19th century where the a...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch
   
   
6. 
   kitsch
   kitsch [Ger.,=trash], term most frequently applied since the early 20th cent. to works considered pretentious and tasteless. Exploitative commercial objects such as Mona Lisa scarves and abominable plaster reproductions of sculptural masterpieces are described as kitsch, as are works that claim arti...
   Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08278