Look up: kitsch

1. Kitsch
   Pretentious, low-quality work which is 'thrown together'.
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2. kitsch
   [n] - art in pretentious bad taste
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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...
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4. kitsch
   noun art in pretentious bad taste
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5. 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...
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6. kitsch
   In the arts, anything that claims to have an aesthetic purpose but is tawdry and tasteless. It usually applies to cheap sentimental works produced for the mass market, such as those found in souvenir shops and chain stores, but it is also used for any art that is considered in bad taste. In the 1960...
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7. Kitsch
   `Kitsch` (, loanword from German) is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value. The concept is associated with the deliberate use of elements that may be thought of as accessdate=2010-06-08-->--> while m...
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