Kitsch and culture Cover Image

Кітч і культура
Kitsch and culture

Author(s): Oleksandr P. Opanasyuk
Subject(s): Semantics, Sociology of Culture, Ontology
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: kitsch; culture; intentionality; intentional reflection; positive and negative intentional reflections; neostyle and polystyle projection;

Summary/Abstract: Kitsch is analyzed in terms of intentional existence of the culture. The emergence and development of kitsch is treated as one of the characteristic features of historical and metahistorical existence of culture in the context of its extensive development. Ontological perspective is grounded concerning this phenomenon (kitsch) that is built by comparison of the semantic signs of the fourth art form (G. Hegel), of the fourth period of culture (O. Spengler), of the cultural characteristics of cultural existence in its final – intentional – period of development (O. Opanasiuk).