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593:On Kitsch
551:melodrama
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333:Modernist
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2433:Judgment
2388:Emotions
2383:Elegance
2363:Cuteness
2336:Feminine
2299:Concepts
2268:Tanizaki
2248:Schiller
2233:Richards
2223:Rancière
2193:Maritain
2128:Hanslick
2068:Benjamin
1940:Feminism
1909:Theology
1889:Medieval
1879:Japanese
1874:Internet
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1791:"Kitsch"
1294:Archived
1012:BBC News
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805:Archived
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631:Poshlost
607:See also
541:Cold War
508:souvenir
483:mermaids
323:Analysis
301:plastics
146:fine art
111:loanword
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2762:Outline
2677:Related
2544:Poetics
2512:Tragedy
2502:Sublime
2475:Quality
2460:Mimesis
2418:Harmony
2403:Fashion
2378:Ecstasy
2373:Disgust
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2258:Scruton
2183:Lyotard
2118:Goodman
2098:Deleuze
2033:Aquinas
2023:Alberti
1996:more...
1975:Realism
1955:Marxism
1935:Fascism
1918:Schools
1904:Science
1859:Ancient
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719:Gestalt
715:italics
502:fossil.
418:kitsch.
411:May Day
335:writer
248:cottage
196:History
169:sincere
158:earnest
150:Pop Art
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2445:Kitsch
2423:Humour
2353:Comedy
2331:Beauty
2273:Vasari
2263:Tagore
2238:Ruskin
2178:Lukács
2168:Langer
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2018:Adorno
1899:Nature
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613:Cliché
395:Prague
267:Munich
263:kitsch
244:teapot
154:ironic
138:beauty
79:Kitsch
2757:Index
2526:Works
2507:Taste
2497:Style
2278:Wilde
2218:Plato
2213:Pater
2173:Lipps
2133:Hegel
2103:Dewey
2093:Danto
2073:Burke
1894:Music
1869:India
1852:Areas
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182:music
119:taste
115:naïve
105:KITCH
67:Puppy
2481:Rasa
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2163:Klee
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2143:Hume
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