<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Apr 2 2008, 11:32 PM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Apr 2 2008, 11:32 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Can we say that Contemporary Indian art is more kitsch style as it seems that the right brain of the movement is stunted by Marxist dogma? That would account for why it goes through motions but does not have asthetic appeal or artistic sense that normal humans possess? I mean only a demented person would paint Madhuri's picture as a scrawl and claim to be her fan! And only a socially engineered critic/media would hail him for those scrawls!
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I think they classify all "ethnic" art as kitsch. link The key is to isolate the elements which emphasizes garrishness. Tibetan art is high class at moment; tomorrow it may be demoted to kitsch.
Kitsch versus High Art framework produces a normative power for the modernist as judge - and deemphisizes the noncombative role of art in the natural diversity of cultures. Everyday Hindus would not dream of declaring temple idol as kitsch but they have created just that possibility of alienation. Always Alienation is the goal. To prevent access to cultural experience and substitution of ideology in its stead. Thus they can even take a perverse pleasure in berating inequality between high art and kitsch and ascribing to caste system, native oppression, and the like. Mira Nair movies have a conscious element of kitsch imparted to Indian elements.
In contrast, here is a work that preserves our cultural experiences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=044oAqOsLYA
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I think they classify all "ethnic" art as kitsch. link The key is to isolate the elements which emphasizes garrishness. Tibetan art is high class at moment; tomorrow it may be demoted to kitsch.
Kitsch versus High Art framework produces a normative power for the modernist as judge - and deemphisizes the noncombative role of art in the natural diversity of cultures. Everyday Hindus would not dream of declaring temple idol as kitsch but they have created just that possibility of alienation. Always Alienation is the goal. To prevent access to cultural experience and substitution of ideology in its stead. Thus they can even take a perverse pleasure in berating inequality between high art and kitsch and ascribing to caste system, native oppression, and the like. Mira Nair movies have a conscious element of kitsch imparted to Indian elements.
In contrast, here is a work that preserves our cultural experiences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=044oAqOsLYA