Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.
A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we… - Denis Dutton
A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we…
- Denis Dutton
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being tru… - Denis Dutton
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being tru…
Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved. - Denis Dutton
Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abil… - Denis Dutton
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abil…
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, i… - Denis Dutton
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, i…
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established… - Denis Dutton
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established…
I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of co… - Denis Dutton
I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of co…
Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance. - Denis Dutton
Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.
Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch - Denis Dutton
Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch
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