Louis Léon César Faidherbe
Louis Léon César Faidherbe , 1818-89, French colonial administrator. He was a leading participant in the establishment of the French colonial empire in Africa. As governor of Senegal (1854-61, 1863-65) he transformed the colony into the dominant political and military power in West Africa, founding (1857) the city of Dakar . He drove Hajj Omar out of Senegal, extending French control to The Gambia, but maintained the traditional authority of the chiefs. After living in Algeria for several years he was recalled to France during the Franco-Prussian War . He assumed command of the Army of the North after the fall of Sedan but saw the situation as hopeless. Elected to the National Assembly in 1871, he resigned in protest against anti-Republican politics. He was a senator from 1879 to 1888. Faidherbe wrote numerous works on geography, ethnography, and ethnology.
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Kitsch art can affect ways of thinking
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/10/2004; ; 655 words
; ...University assistant art professor Nadine Hawke addressed the role of kitsch art in popular culture in her honors lecture "Kitsch in Synch: Analyzing Popular Arts." "The term kitsch is often associated with the term bad taste," Hawke said...
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Kitsch`n'pink; It's not a look for every home but you can express yourself and make your own style.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 10/14/2003; 700+ words
; ...interiors and Elvis rocking dolls. It's official kitsch is back. But how do you know when kitsch is beautiful and when it's overdone? Which...highly collectable? Lesley Gillilan, author of Kitsch Deluxe, says the word kitsch has been reinvented...
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Kitsch: A Cultural Menace No Longer / Once seen as a tool for tyrants, it has become a rich resource for serious artists.(SUNDAY DATEBOOK)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 2/4/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...memorably titled "Avant- Garde and Kitsch." Greenberg wrote with a sense of urgency...was as much threatened by the success of kitsch as it was by the dictatorships of left...Greenberg identified the embrace of kitsch by Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini as part...
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Camping out: Kitsch decor: cheap and chintzy tat, just a bit of fun, or irony-laden artistic statement? Pamela Buxton enjoys a new book on the subject.(The Week Ahead)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Design Week; 8/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...out there. Avoid this book--it will upset you. Kitsch Deluxe is a visual assault of a book packed with...respite from all the glitter, fluff and fun that is kitsch. The range of kitsch may well surprise those on familiar terms with the...
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KKKKULTUR: KITSCH & CAMP IN A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU (1).
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...spectacle, demystifying a bloated rhetoric: Kitsch. Aestheticians and cultural critics rumor...nevertheless, vanishes when shadowed. In Kitsch and Art, Czech critic Tomas Kulka illustrates...Setting itself apart from "Art," "Kitsch"(4) presupposes salutary divisions...
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What? Clotheslines and Popbeads Aren't Trashy Anymore?: Teaching About Kitsch
Magazine article from: Studies in Art Education; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...In this article, we explore changing definitions of kitsch and simultaneously examine the relevance of kitsch to contemporary society. Using a number of examples, including a focus on kitsch related to September 11, 2001, we explore the current...
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Pack up your good taste in an old kitsch bag
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 11/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Artificial Kingdom: A Treasure of the Kitsch Experienceby Celeste Olalquiaga(Bloomsbury...entirely constructed of sea shells, it's kitsch. If it's dead but has been preserved in a lifelike pose, it's kitsch. If it's a mass-produced representation...
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Cheap and meaningful; design If you thought kitsch started with the Lava Lamp, think again. Charles Darwent explores one of the more obscure cultural legacies of the Victorians
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/27/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Olalquiaga's new study of the anthropology of kitsch, Lava Lamps and angel fish are serious...Olalquiaga's book, The Artificial Kingdom, kitsch - from the German kitschen, meaning...Bavarian castles - et voila: the birth of kitsch. But what really defined kitsch was...
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THE KITSCH CAMPAIGN; Odd Nerdrum's On Kitsch
Newspaper article from: Boise Weekly; 12/29/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...declared himself not an artist but a kitsch painter. Of course nothing could have...Since the Enlightenment the term kitsch has been nearly interchangeable with the term trash. To call an artist a kitsch painter is the blunt equivalent of...
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The educational psychology text as kitsch: deconstructing Woolfolk
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Education; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Discussion The Educational Psychology Text as Kitsch: Deconstructing Woolfolk James T. Sanders university...So why don't I like it? Why do I belittle it as kitsch? Kitsch, after all, usually refers to something of tawdry...
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kitsch
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
kitsch. A term applied to art or artefacts characterized...historian Fritz Karpfen published a book entitled Der Kitsch: Eine Studie über die Entartung der Kunst (‘Kitsch: A Study of the Degeneration of Art'). The first...
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1950s Kitsch
Book article from: American Decades
1950s KITSCH Decorating Whimsically Most American furniture in...consumers spell relief in the 1950s? It was spelled "kitsch" — a German colloquialism for trash or rubbish. Kitsch has been called — only partly tongue...
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Kitsch
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Kitsch. German term meaning rubbish or pretentious...real artistic creations, so implies that Kitsch art apes something without any understanding...architectural Post-Modernism possessed Kitsch-like aspects (notably the allusions to...
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Clement Greenberg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...essays published in Partisan Review. "The Avant Garde and Kitsch" (1939) was a manifesto in which Greenberg made a sharp distinction...of the ways in which modern society had debased high art into kitsch. In "Towards a Newer Laocoon" (published in Partisan Reviewin...
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Jeff Koons
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of a shameless self-promoter and charlatan who relied upon kitsch and shock tactics to draw attention to himself. Koons's work...Self-Promotion of Art Criticized Koons's elevation of kitsch and the appropriation of tacky images and objects culled from...
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