An encyclopedia of kitsch as defined in an alternate understanding by Milan Kundera.
For Kundera, kitsch is essentially about the categorical agreement with being – about whether or not we can accept life as we see it around us. It could manifest itself as a parade, a cross, an image of mankind united, a political cause to the left or right, kitsch embraces cliché as a defense against the weight of human reality. Kundera understands kitsch to be a categorizing phenomenon, the means through which complex human experience is distilled down to simple, sentimental motifs and ideas. Kitsch categorizes the world for us, and Kitsch Encyclopedia categorizes this form of kitsch.The project is self-directed and content-driven. With excerpts from Simulations by Jean Baudrillard, Mythologies by Roland Barthes and The UnbearableLightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
