Greenberg'original high art/kitsch canon was directed

at Captalism and its commercialization of art. How ironical it is that his concepts should be hijacked by captalist commentators such as this one to condescendingly ridicule socialist realism as "awful" and so on;

is it really that bad for a work of art to contain kitsch values? it's not clear at least;

as for most of us, being captives of whatever cultural narratives to which we are subject, we just want to have a good time;

apparently in mr schonberg's discerning eyes, yin le pianiste de chine equaled an exotic curiosity from the communist china;