July 21, 1976 (vol. 86, iss. 50) • Page Image 23
…Wednesday, July 21, 1976 THE MICHIGAN (JAIL Y Page Seventeen Creeping kitsch at the Art Fair By JEFFREY SELBST 13AD TASTE is a creeping phenomenon, rather like hysteria. It gathers its advo- cates silently, sscking them in under such pseudonyms as "Bi- centennial patriotism" or "avant gardism". The fact of the msatter is, this disease must he exposed its att of its slime. The picture hetoss is an exam- ple of pure, utnbridled kitsch. Every...…