E.A. Baconsky. Materia unui colaj kitsch
A.E. Baconsky. The Matter of a Kitsch Collage

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the various forms of kitsch – aesthetic kitsch, social kitsch, tourist kitsch and kitsch-world – in the theoretical and poetic texts of A.E. Baconsky. His essays on the new poetic paradigm interrogate the forms of mimetic kitsch, seen as part of an extensive metamorphic process of aesthetic thinking throughout the ’50s-’60s. The quest for a new aesthetic paradigm challenges the artistic hierarchies of modernity and puts forward unsettling simulations. In addition, Baconsky’s travel notes in the Western world, fallen prey to technology and consumerism, bring to the fore alienating forms of social kitsch. The writer describes the tourist kitsch, followed by the degradation of artistic objects, all summarizing a whole tradition of souvenirs and memorabilia. Moreover, his poetic texts from Corabia lui Sebastian interrogatively stage a reified space where objects look more alive than human beings, while weak individuals read the signs of an apocalyptic world. The literature itself is mechanized and written language becomes the compressed matter of kitsch collage.

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