| Abstract |
| he appearance of Kitsch in late 19th century was soon brought into the popular society that transformed environment establishing artificial and solid popular culture at last. And, Kitsch phenomenon can be found widely while various and complex connection is witnessed in the 20th century. In particular, strategic adaption of Kitsch production and image in the pop art is a pioneering effort to sublime Kitsch into arts although there is fundamental differences in meaning.
In line with a trend of the contemporary arts that respects unlimited autonomous sense of arts escaping from the current custom, Kitsch raises pluralism in the art, and is easily utilized in social structure with popular culture beyond axiological position. It even suggests a new artistic possibility transcending the existing aesthetic idea.
Moreover, the contemporary popular arts are actively receptive in technical culture by media, utilizing commercialized resources freely and accepting popular culture positively. In this sense, it shows a kind of Kitsch phenomenon.
Thus, this article attempts to establish artistic value of Kitsch by the aesthetic in the contemporary arts and to figure out correlation between arts, Kitsch and popular culture, which is followed by the interpretation of Kitsch in connection with symbolism with the popular arts . |
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| Key Words |
| 현대미술, 키치, 대중문화, Contemporary arts, Kitsch, Popular culture |
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