Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Karsten Harries

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Karsten Harries is a German philosopher and Emeritus Howard H. Newman Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he taught from 1965 until his retirement. Harries is known for his expertise on Heidegger, early modern philosophy, and the philosophy of art and architecture.

Born: January 25, 1937

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How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

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We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

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The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

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Not all kitsch is sweet.

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The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

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To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.

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The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

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Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Karsten Harries

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