kitschy

kitsch | American Dictionary

kitsch
noun[ U ]
us/kɪtʃ/
showy art or cheap, decorative objects that are attractive to people who are thought to lack any appreciation of style or beauty:
She collects all sorts of kitsch, like these ceramic figurines of movie stars.

Examples of kitsch

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It became very popular in the early 1990s and is associated with bad taste, kitsch, provincialism, and a lack of political consciousness.
This may be why kitsch is not only crucial to modernity, but one of the most telling symptoms of it.
There is no irony in these passages, though, and their sentiment never tips over into kitsch.
The right angle ruled, the gridded facade maximized the partnership of structure and light, and anything suggesting historical pastiche was condemned as kitsch.
But where does this alliance between literalism, kitsch and naturalism come from?
In this role as other, kitsch suggests the instability of ornament.
It is followed by a plot synopsis easily accessible to the layman and frequently on a level of discourse that borders on kitsch.
Similarly, in the beauty example the borderline between objects of beauty and kitsch may not be precise and some objects may be borderline beautiful.
As well as being a very early musical mobilisation of kitsch, it also provides a way into the notion of a noise 'cover'.
In that example, a small reduction in the quantity of enjoyment can, as we saw, make the difference between an object of beauty and mere kitsch.
Messiaen's spirituality was anything but warm and fuzzy, his style often the opposite of ingratiating, and that is what finally saves his work from kitsch.
Aesthetic terms such as 'kitsch' often connoted film's supposedly vulgar content.
Kitsch is the modernist plug to sentimentality and emotions, separating the artwork from feelings and re-investing it in the categories of modernist discourses.
Is the artist attacking the 'original', making it kitsch, where once it at least tried not to be?
These are points that one should take into view; the other is a sort of kitsch, which is stuff and nonsense.
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