ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics

Espes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics is an international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal of aesthetics.


Vol 13, No 2 (2024): Kitsch: New Perspectives on a Controversial Aesthetic and Cultural Phenomenon

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Kitsch - New Perspectives on a Controversial Aesthetic and Cultural Phenomenon

Kitsch: New Perspectives on a Controversial Aesthetic and Cultural Phenomenon
Lisa Schmalzried
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5-12
Aesthetics in Kitsch art: the aesthetic ideology and teleological purpose behind the charged sentimentality.
Yasmine Gamal Abdrabbo, Cherine Gamal Abdrabbo
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13-23
Kitsch and Morality
Aziz Alfailakawi
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24-36
Kitsch as Experience of the World
Darío Hernández Guerra
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37-51
Emotions Guaranteed: On the Kitsch Contract
Thomas Küpper
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52-62
Theology of Creation and Beauty: Kohelet 3:11
Tibor Máhrik, Roman Králik
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63-79
Ethnic Populism and Bad Taste: Exploring the Kitschification of Slovak Folklore
Jana Migašová
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80-90
Regional Kitsch
Max Ryynänen
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91-100
The Antinomy of Kitsch: Kitsch as an Aesthetic Category and an Aesthetic / Art-Crititical Property
Lisa Katharin Schmalzried
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101-116
The Influence of Artistic Kitsch on the Formation of Political Memes
Anastasiia Tormakhova, Dmytro Tovmash, Ruslan Grechkosii
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117-145

Book Reviews

Thinking about Art as an Imaginative Reinterpretation of the Sensory World
Slávka Kopčáková
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147-150
Aesthetic Theory Across the Disciplines: A Review
Lenka Lee
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151-157
Change the View on Arthur C. Danto
Michal Šedík
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158-164