ETHNIC POPULISM AND BAD TASTE: EXPLORING THE KITSCHIFICATION OF SLOVAK FOLKLORE

• Authors: Migašová Jana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study is a compilation of notes on the concept of folkloric kitsch, understood as a secondary aesthetic product of modernism that specifically participates in shared feelings of national pride in Central European countries. The aesthetic core of folkloric kitsch production involves the de-contextualised and redundant use of elements borrowed from original folk art, aiming to communicate originality, authenticity, and national self-sufficiency. In Slovakia, the kitsch mode of presenting folklore is often used not only in the tourism sector but also to promote ideas charged with nationalism, particularly as part of populist political communication. Against the backdrop of reconstructing European and Slovak thought and writing on the relationship between kitsch and politics, this article attempts to reconstruct and explain folkloric kitsch in the realm of painting as a specific aesthetic vehicle for the powerful ethnic populism.

Keywords

EN

FOLKLORISM; KITSCH; MODERNISM; POPULISM; SLOVAK VISUAL ART

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 80 - 90

Contributors

author

Migašová Jana

• University of Prešov, Faculty of Arts, 17. novembra 1, Prešov, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.14770112