He mentions the eastern provinces of the country, which have traditionally been heavily influenced by Russian culture and language. “We want to make a new image of Ukrainian culture, but it should be based on our history and our heritage,” he says. No, if the masses crowd into the Tretyakov (Moscow's museum of contemporary Russian art: kitsch), it is largely because they have been conditioned to shun 'formalism' and to admire 'socialist realism.'" All values are human values, relative values, in art as well as elsewhere. Nowadays almost everything Greenberg considered kitsch has been reclaimed; the idea that pop music is junk today is quite rightly inconceivable.

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2023 22:46 UTC