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Harries: always considered immoral One cultures kitsch may be anothers avant garde "it is the sentimentality of kitsch that makes kitsch kitsch and sentimentality that makes kitsch morally suspect "kitsch may be bad art" and "show poor taste" S. challenges the condemnation of the sentimentality of kitsch and the idea that it is ethically wrong contempt for kitsch is considered a standard for good taste but too little agreement about what is wrong with kitsch "vicissitudes" (changes or variations) of taste in art attacks on kitsch and answers (1) provokes excessive or immature expressions of emotion "cute" "pretty" "Aaah" emotions unsophisticated and child-like what is the charge? too much of these emotions? provokes them at all? attack on emotions as such? S.: emotions develop with experience: but are emotions of a 70-year-old better or wiser than those of a seven-year-old? often we take emotions to be sophisticated when they are cynical or suppressed but: there is something charming about an adult with child-like feelings, and it is wrong when he/she never can have them one purpose of art: to remind us of tender, outgrown sentiments, to help us feel them again Our limited vocabulary: a cultivated inability to recognize the more gentle emotions agreed: we can condemn the public[childish] expression of emotion as being inappropriate we are probably embarrassed by the gentle emotions because they make us uncomfortable in any amount and remind us of our naivete may be good taste requires subtlety: this is "whiggish." [I think he means like the Whig party which favored strong central government, or like the English Whig historians who believed in the inevitable victory of progress over reaction, or liberal, unprejudiced and open to new ideas.none of this works: I think he is misusing the word] it may be that certain emotions are inappropriate, i.e. getting turned on by Bouguereaus paintings of little girls generally the problem is: feeling cuddly isnt cool and is poor taste perhaps kitsch is bad art, but why more? (2) one suggestion: kitsch and sentimentality manipulate the emotions kitsch is manipulative, using icons (little girls, puppies) to guarantee emotional response argument: manipulation of emotions is a violation of a persons autonomy S. suspects this is covert reaction to the emotions themselves, it is not a violation if a person is reasoned with, why is it when the appeal is to the emotions? assumes that emotions are humiliating but not all emotions are humiliating why should we feel humiliated by feelings of tenderness emotions are intentionally brought about all the time, for example gratitude is brought by a gift manipulation refers to an unwanted emotion but saccharine sentiments [are not always unwanted] and would seem appropriate in the sanctuary of the museum (3) evoke cheap, easy, superficial emotions cheap may mean low quality or may refer to the class of the responder Oscar Wilde: To be sentimental is to be shallow. mark of the uneducated S. the high class (in society) associate themselves with emotional control and reject sentimentality, and male society rejects emotionality of women also ethnic: Northern against Southern European, West against East kitsch is cheap because the person who feels these emotions is thought emotionally cheap as well can we afford such snobbery? 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