Karsten Harries quotes
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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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“Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.”
-- Karsten HarriesSource : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter
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“The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.”
-- Karsten HarriesSource : Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.79, Northwestern University Press
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“We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.”
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“How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch”
-- Karsten HarriesSource : Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press
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“The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.”
-- Karsten HarriesSource : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter
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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.”
-- Karsten HarriesSource : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter
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“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press
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“Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.”
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Source : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter
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“How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch”
Source : Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press
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