I keep scheduling some relief, as best I can, from my own preponderance, a geographical valve, if you want, from the preoccupation that South Africans have with themselves and the shock of their tentative release from their own undoing. Italy, Civitella, prefigured as...
Italy is the country of Great Culture and no less great Kitsch. What makes things kitsch? For instance, Botticelli is for sure a genius, but he became an object of kitsch because of the mass reproduction of his works and the seemingly easy understanding of his art....