Decorative aspects of reality with reference to sociological painting

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: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
Language: English
Rights: Clark, Dorothy

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