
“You can’t have your kitsch and your good taste, too.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Source: Running Dog
“You can’t have your kitsch and your good taste, too.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
I wish to play with human feeling, with its 'morbidity' in a cold and ferocious manner. Only very recently I have become a sort of gravedigger of art (oddly enough, I am using the very terms of my enemies). Some of my latest works have been coffins and tombs. During the same time I succeeded in painting with fire, using particularly powerful and searing gas flames, some of them measuring three to four meters high. I use these to bathe the surface of the painting in such a way that it registered the spontaneous trace of fire.
Quote from Klein's 'Chelsea Hotel Manifesto', 1961; from the Yves Klein Archives - archived from the original on 15 January 2013; as cited on Wikipedia: Yves Klein
After the opening of his unsuccessful exhibition at Leo Castelli's Gallery, New York 1961, Klein stayed with Rotraut Uecker (fr) at the Chelsea Hotel for the duration of the exhibition. While there, he wrote the 'Chelsea Hotel Manifesto', a proclamation of the 'multiplicity of new possibilities'
1960 -1964
“The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.”
Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 162)
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
"Avant-garde and Kitsch" (p. 86)
Modern Culture (2000)
“You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”
Source: Witch & Wizard
“I'm pop-corn
I'm a hell storm
Yeah, I'm in the hands of faith
I’m so bad words
Now what you heard?”
Dark White Girl
Resurrection (2014)
“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”
Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (5 April 1965).