Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
This visual essay examines the garden gnome as a product of both low and high culture. Its essence of ambiguity and unreliability has through the ages made it a favored object for ironic comments, social and political statements, popular aesthetics and religious folklore. The gnome's more or less hidden nature of rude male (homo)sexuality saw him banished from the bourgeois sphere and transformed into childish triviality often conceived as kitsch. However, in the period of post-modernity, when many artists and cultural producers are inspired by “kitsch,” it seems pointless, if not impossible to maintain the concept of kitsch.
This visual essay examines the garden gnome as a product of both low and high culture. Its essence of ambiguity and unreliability has through the ages made it a favored object for ironic comments, social and political statements, popular aesthetics and religious folklore. The gnome's more or less hidden nature of rude male (homo)sexuality saw him banished from the bourgeois sphere and transformed into childish triviality often conceived as kitsch. However, in the period of post-modernity, when many artists and cultural producers are inspired by “kitsch,” it seems pointless, if not impossible to maintain the concept of kitsch.
Kitsch is Dead—Long Live Garden Gnomes
Londos, Eva (Autor:in)
Home Cultures ; 3 ; 293-306
01.11.2006
14 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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