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Subject:	Re: Kitsch
From:	Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Moderated Classical Music List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:13:48 -0800
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Ed Zubrow:

> Alex Ross cites a character in a 1902 Thomas Mann story as an illustration
> of the developing split between artists and the masses.  (page 36) The
> character berates a store owner for displaying "kitsch." So far, so good.
> It's the descriptor Ross appends that surprised me; he calls it "art
> that is merely 'beautiful' and therefore worthless."

How can something be "merely" beautiful?  Beauty isn't so common that you
afford to look down on it.  Pure beauty, without "higher" ethical baggage,
seems to me quite valuable.

Steve Schwartz

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