Kitsch - Kitsch Kitsch is a German term that has been taken over into English that categorizes art that is considered to be of "bad taste"; whether overly mundane, folksy, commercial, or pretentious. Because the word was brought into use as a response to a large amount of art in the 19th century where the aesthetic of art work was confused with a sense of exaggerated sentimentality or melodrama, its most closely associated with art that is sentimental, mawkish, or maudlin; however, it can be used to refer to any type of art which is defficient for similar reasons--whether it tries to appear "sentimental", "cool", "glamorous", "theatrical", or "creative", kitsch is said to be a gesture imitative of the superficial appearances of art. It's often said that kitsch.
Industrial Records - sado-masochism and genocide should be objectional in the light of their being a pointer to existing, and acceptable, ploys within the industry. Disturbing and thought-provoking imagery and packaging complimented Industrial Records output; TG's debut LP limited to 786 copies and came in bootleg packaging; a plain white card sleeve with glued-on xerox information strips; the Industrial Records logo a depiction of the chimney at Auschwitz death camp - industry at its darkest; the Woolworths bargain-bin kitsch packaging of TG as pop niceguys, posing at a seaside scene in casual-wear on 20 Jazz Funk Greats (at Britain's number one suicide location!). Not content with a single live release, the label released a cassette box set '24 hours of TG'; documenting the first 24 TG live performances in their entirety. The label served.
Hell, Michigan - the 1840s, enough people had immigrated to make a 70-person school viable (assuming 19th century birth rates, this pegs the population somewhere close to its current level). In 1841, as the story goes, Reeves was asked what he wanted the town to be called and responded, "I don't care, you can name it Hell if you want to." His later attempts to rechristen it Reevesville or Reeve's Mills proved futile. Hell's main export is, appropriately, kitsch. Among other things, it has a "fully non-accredited" college, Damnation University -- DamU to alumni -- that sells half-singed diplomas, and a small post office in the back of the general store popular with irate taxpayers and recent divorcees. Also a motorcycle dealership and an ice cream parlor, which bear mentioning by virtue of being.
Elvis Presley - his career. That is why Parker had so much control over him." Many journalists' attempts to 'out' the star in the past were thwarted by his manager. After seven years off the top of the charts, Presley's song "Suspicious Minds," hit No. 1 on the Billboard Music charts on November 1, 1969. This was the last time any song by Presley hit no. 1 while he was still alive. The mid-1970s saw Elvis becoming increasing isolated, battling an addiction to prescription drugs and the resulting toll on his appearance and performances. He died at his palatial home Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee in 1977 and is now buried on its grounds. Originally buried at Forest Hill Cemetery, his tomb was eventually moved to Graceland after an attempted theft of his body. Numerous.
Devo - wave music band from Akron, Ohio whose music mingled kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and thinly veiled sexual allusions in discordantly synthesized pop songs. Devo was probably as well known for their image as for their music, donning uniforms that mocked industrial culture and commercialism, such as the yellow chemical-protection suits during the early Q: Are We Not Men? period, and later the signature "flower pot" hats (power domes) for Freedom of Choice. Mark Mothersbaugh, the band's lead singer and synthesizer player, has gone on to do theme music for television programs (starting with Pee Wee's Playhouse), video games, and movies. In 1985, he released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, "Musik for Insomniaks," which was later expanded and released as two CDs. His company, Mutato Muzika, provides employment for.
1997 Governor General's Awards - Nancy Huston, The Goldberg Variations French Language Fiction Winner: Aude, Cet imperceptible mouvement Other Finalists: Bernard Assiniwi, La Saga des Béothuks Lise Bissonnette, Quittes et Doubles - Scènes de réciprocité Pierre Morency, La Vie entière - Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde Pierre Ouellet, Légende dorée Poetry Winner: Pierre Nepveu, Romans-fleuves Other Finalists: Nicole Brossard, Vertige de l'avant-scène Serge Legagneur, Poèmes choisis, 1961-1997 Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves Hélène Monette, Plaisirs et Paysages kitsch Drama Winner: Yvan Bienvenue, Dits et Inédits Other Finalists: Jasmine Dubé, La Bonne Femme Marie-Line Laplante, Une tache sur la lune Robert Marinier, L'Insomnie Larry Tremblay, Ogre - Cornemuse Non-Fiction Winner: Roland Viau, Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes - Guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne Other Finalists: Fernand Dumont, Une foi partagée Yolande Geadah, Femmes voilées, intégrismes.
Abba - The Movie - all of the group's videos, and who went on to greater things. The Movie has become something of a cult film, both among Abba fans and students of kitsch. The film has a very loose plot which is little more than a vehicle to link together the concert footage. It concerns the adventures of Ashley, a naive radio DJ who is sent by his boss to get an in-depth interview with the group, whose fame and stature neither he nor Ashley have the first clue about. Needless to say Ashley singularly fails, and is forced to follow the group all over Australia, with repeated run-ins with the group's bodyguard and his increasingly exasperated boss. Eventually, a stroke of luck has him bump into Stig Anderson, the group's manager, who grants him.
Academic art - If approved, they would then draw from plaster casts of famous classical sculptures. Only after acquiring these skills were artists permitted entrance to classes in which a live model posed. Interestingly, painting was not actually taught at the École des Beaux-Arts until after 1863. To learn to paint with a brush, the student first had to demonstrate proficiency in drawing, which was considered the foundation of academic painting. Only then could the pupil join the studio of an academician and learn how to paint. Throughout the entire process, competitions with a predetermined subject and a specific allotted period of time measured the students' progress. The most famous art competition for students was the Prix de Rome, or Rome prize. The winner of the Rome prize was awarded a fellowship to study.
Art Frahm - are common in Frahm's work. Frahm was commercially successful. His falling-panties paintings are still considered too camp to be art, and too juvenile to be erotica. However this genre (which Frahm seems to have created) was in demand in the 1950s, and was later imitated by some other pin-up artists. The falling-panties art has a small cult following as mid-20th century kitsch. The works are best described with plenty of irony; James Lileks' clever analysis (see external link below) of Frahm's work has brought it to the attention of many on the Internet. In addition to pin-ups, Frahm created a series of humorous hobo-themed calendar illustrations. His advertising art included works for Coca-Cola and Coppertone. See also: Pin-up girl.
Bathos - a Garden Club passion play). When artists consciously mix the very serious with the very trivial, the effect is the absurd and absurd humor. However, when an artist is unconscious of the juxtaposition (e.g. when a film maker means for a man in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet to be frightening), the result is bathos. A tolerant but detached enjoyment of the esthetic failure that is inherent in naive, unconscious and honest bathos is an element of the camp sensibility, as first analyzed by Susan Sontag, in an essay 'Notes on camp' that first appeared in Partisan Review, 1960 [1]. Arguably, kitsch is bathos in concrete arts..
Camp - the low-budget science fiction movies of the 1950s and 60s. The attitude is identified with male homosexuals, but is a common "take" on aesthetics and not restricted to any group. As a verb, the word in this sense is closer to its apparent derivation from from the French slang term camper, which means "to pose in an exaggerated fashion", as in camping it up. See also: kitsch, drag queen.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - (Tales From Topographic Oceans - 1974). Ziggy Stardust (along with other notable albums, such as The New York Dolls - 1973) also combined the two types of proto-punk, the energetic power of the Stooges and the avante-garde lyrical and musical aspects of the Velvet Underground, resulting in early punk musicians like Elvis Costello & the Attractions (My Aim Is True - 1977), Adam & the Ants (Kings of the Wild Frontier - 1980) and Graham Parker (Howlin' Wind - 1976) before the first wave of true hardcore punk music, with the Jam (In the City - 1977), the Clash (The Clash - 1977) and the Ramones (The Ramones - 1976), as well as the more artistic punk of Patti Smith (Horses - 1975) and Television (Marquee Moon - 1977). In the.
Clement Greenberg - Expressionist movement led by Jackson Pollock. Greenberg made his name as an art critic with his essay Avant Garde and Kitsch, published in 1939. In this article Greenberg claimed that avant-garde and Modernist art was a means to resist the 'dumbing down' of culture caused by consumerism. Greenberg termed this 'kitsch', a word that his essay popularised, though its connotations have since changed. Modern art, like philosophy, explored the conditions under which we experience and understand the world. It does not simply provide information about it - in the manner of an illustratively accurate depiction of the world. For Greenberg Modernism provided a critical commentary on experience. It was constantly changing to adapt to kitsch culture, which was itself always developing. In the years after World War Two, Greenberg came to.
Coronation Street - street (and was once played by the actor's own son) but has since departed again (after bigamously marrying two women), a son who lives with Ken's ex-girlfriend, and his adopted daughter, Tracy (again a street returnee, played by a fourth actress to have the role!), who was his third wife's daughter by her ex-husband, Ray Langton. Barlow's character embodies the clash of perspectives and cultures played out in the soap opera. For decades his arch-foe was Mike Baldwin, a dodgy cockney (ie, London) businessman, who set up a clothes factory on the street. Baldwin and Barlow epitomised two different types of character. Whereas Barlow was an arts orientated, left of centre community centred man, Baldwin was a cut and thrust money-grubbing right wing businessman, who forever mocked Barlow as a 'waster'.
Culture of Gibraltar - local temple. Relations with Spain Historically, cultural ties with Spain have been strong. Intermarriage between Gibraltarian men and Spanish women resulted in many people having relatives on the other side of the frontier, known in Spanish as La Verja or 'the fence'. These people were badly affected by the closure of the frontier in 1969, which even saw telephone links severed, so that the only way that families could communicate was to shout across the border gates. Others took the more cumbersome and costly route of travelling by ferry via Morocco. Since the frontier with Spain was reopened, ties with the hinterland, known as the 'Campo de Gibraltar', have increased, with many buying property in La Línea de la Concepción, where prices are considerably lower. On the weekends, many flock across.
Touch of Evil - spot the guilty with his intuition, an aching in his bad leg, and he was willing to frame the guilty to make sure they get their desserts. Quinlan's cane, an allusion to Citizen Kane, plays a major part in the film. In fact, Welles was injured during filming and actually needed the cane. Touch of Evil is rich and ripe with menace and atmosphere as Leigh is abducted by hoodlums and Heston attempts to find her, with the moody border ambiance provided by Venice, California with a two sleazy hotels, a desolate motel, and three or four broken down bars, and strip joints, as well as Dietrich's kitsch-filled parlor. The border setting provides Welles with an opportunity to comment on the relations between the United States and Mexico and the treatment.
Sam and Max - book characters - Sam a dog, Max a "psychotic rabbitty thing" - who occupy a parody of a kitsch USA filled with pointless Americana and junk food living. They are private investigators (well, Freelance Police). The comic books are laced with dark, nihilistic and surreal humour. The series was created by Steve Purcell and published in bits and pieces under several different titles and by several different publishers. Most of the bits were collected in a collection entitled Sam and Max: Surfin' the Highway. The characters spawned a successfully graphical adventure game, Sam and Max Hit the Road. In August 2002, LucasArts announced a that a sequel - Sam and Max: Freelance Police - would be released in the first quarter of 2004. There was also a less adult animated series,.
Sam and Max Hit the Road - Police, comic book characters created by Steve Purcell, it follows the detective duo (Sam, a 6-feet anthropomorphic dog, and Max, a 4-feet psychotic rabbitty thing) across a kitsch, tourist trap pastiche of America (featuring the World's Largest Ball of String) in search of an escaped Bigfoot. It introduced a slightly modified SCUMM interface - instead of the inventory and a panel with the control verbs appearing at the bottom of the screen, a right-click of the mouse cycles through a set of icons representing different control verbs, and the inventory is a separate screen. A similar interface was later used in The Curse of Monkey Island, the third Monkey Island game and the last to use a SCUMM engine. Widely considered the funniest of the LucasArts adventure games (if not overall.
Ship of Fools - Best Actor in a Leading Role (Oskar Werner), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Michael Dunn), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Simone Signoret), Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Ship of Fools is also the name of a UK-based Christian website, which was first launched in 1977, on April Fool's Day, no less. Subtitling itself "The magazine of Christian unrest", the site contains a mix of humour and discussion. Some notable features are: Mystery Worship - Reports on churches made by users of the site. The intention is that churches can find out how they appear to outsiders. Gadgets for God, Fruitcake Zone, Signs and Blunders - Humour sections, showing examples in the Christian world of, respectively, kitsch products, strange.
Robert Venturi - 1991. He is best described as a post-modernist because of his promotion of what has been called "kitsch of high capitalism". Important works by his firm include: Guild House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania book: Learning from Las Vegas.
