- Title
- Decorative aspects of reality with reference to sociological painting
- Creator
- Clark, Dorothy
- Subject
- Decorative arts
- Date Issued
- 1974
- Date
- 1974
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MFA
- Identifier
- vital:2474
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010501
- Description
- The writer could not blame the reader for finding the title to this essay couched in somewhat academic terms. It must be said immediately that the title is a fake -- or that the following essay is a fake; the title has pretensions to the academic -- the essay has not. All academicism no longer has an independent existence -- it operates by formulae, is mechanical, uses faked sensations and vicarious experience and borrows its tricks and themes from a mature, established culture close at hand. This ' culture's life's blood is looted, given new twists, watered down and served up in academic terms. For these reasons, academicism and Kitsch are the same -- both change according to style and yet are always the same; both are the epitome of all that is spurious in our time. So, academicism could be said to be the 'stuffed shirt-front' for Kitsch. Preamble, p. 1.
- Format
- 51 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Clark, Dorothy
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