Broch called kitsch "the evil within the value-system of art" -- that is, [...] Other theorists over time have also linked kitsch to totalitarianism. The Czech writer Milan E viva a Winkipédia, a fonte.[...]
if true art is "good," kitsch is "evil." While art was creative, Broch held
that
kitsch depended solely on plundering creative art by adopting formulas
that seek
to imitate it, limiting itself to conventions and demanding a
totalitarianism of
those recognizable conventions. To him, kitsch was not
the same as bad art; it
formed a system of its own. He argued that kitsch
involved trying to achieve
"beauty" instead of "truth" and that any attempt
to make something beautiful
would lead to kitsch.
Kundera, in his book The
Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), defined it as "the absolute denial of
shit." His argument was that kitsch functions by excluding from view everything
that humans find difficult to come to terms with, offering instead a sanitised
view of the world in which "all answers are given in advance and preclude any
questions."