Philosopher, Associated Professor, University of Paris 8, Department of Fine Arts.
Abstract
We can summarize and simplify the collection of values associated with pittoresque from three viewpoints: first, the relevance of the word and the thing as an object of historical study, worthy of study, second in a total disinterest toward the concept insofar as it is considered unfit to name and understand the issues of the contemporary world which produces a third attitude that is at once a kind of soft acceptance and fun on one side , or shocked or ironic criticism of the other, to designate the kitsch producing all azimuths of a world driven by tourism, intimate part of the process pictorialization a world and one of the founding elements of the picturesque.
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