Editing Kitsch (section)

==Further usage==

===Historical fiction===
Jewish-American author [[Art Spiegelman]] coined the term "[[Wikt:Holo-kitsch|Holo-kitsch]]" to describe mass-market, overly sentimental depictions of [[the Holocaust]] from the end of the [[Cold War]] onwards, including works inspired by his own graphic novel on the subject, ''[[Maus]]''. The term is usually used to criticize works seen as relying on [[melodrama]] and mass recognition to commercialize the experiences of [[Holocaust survivors]], such as ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' or ''[[The Boy in the Striped Pajamas]]'', but also includes more critically respected works like Polanski's ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]''.<ref>Audi, Anthony. [https://lithub.com/art-spiegelman-if-it-walks-like-a-fascist/ "Art Spiegelman: If It Walks Like a Fascist…"] ''Literary Hub'', 22 March 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2024.</ref><ref>Bourne, Michael. [https://themillions.com/2011/11/beyond-holokitsch-spiegelman-goes-meta.html "Beyond Holokitsch: Spiegelman Goes Meta"], ''The Millions'', 22 November 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2024.</ref><ref>Corliss, Richard. [https://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1869229,00.html "Defiance: Beyond Holo-kitsch"], ''Time'', 1 January, 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2024.</ref>

Swiss historian and anti-Semitism expert [[Stefan Maechler]] also commented on the role of kitsch sentimentality in the context of [[Wilkomirski syndrome]], writing on ''[[Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood]]'' that "once the professed interrelationship between the first-person narrator, the death-camp story he narrates, and historical reality are proved palpably false, what was a masterpiece becomes kitsch."<ref>Maechler 2000, p. 281.</ref>

===Reclamation===
The [[Kitsch movement]] is an international movement of classical painters, founded{{clarify|Sources indicate that this was more of an aestethic statement than the founding of a movement|date=September 2014}} in 1998 upon a philosophy proposed by [[Odd Nerdrum]],<ref>E.J. Pettinger [http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/the-kitsch-campaign/Content?oid=926148] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407050738/http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/the-kitsch-campaign/Content?oid=926148|date=7 April 2012}} "The Kitsch Campaign" [Boise Weekly], 29 December 2004.</ref> which he clarified in his 2001 book ''On Kitsch'',<ref>Dag Solhjell and Odd Nerdrum. ''On Kitsch'', Kagge Publishing, August 2001, {{ISBN|8248901238}}.</ref> in cooperation with Jan-Ove Tuv and others incorporating the techniques of the [[Old Master]]s with narrative, [[romanticism]], and emotionally charged imagery.