Gillo Dorfles

"Works of art are received and valued on different planes.
Two polar types stand out: with one, the accent is on the cult value;
with the other, on the exhibition value of the work"*
*Walter Benjamin
"The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction"

disappointment!

I have not found much

critical material on the web about him,

some photos, and limited amount 

of his paintings; mostly copyright by the sources.

"If kitsch rivals reality while simultaneously imitating its effects, then the truth of kitsch exists in its realized fabrication. Gillo Dorfles disparaged kitsch for its falsified nature: "if we have to recognize the mass-production of industrial objects originally intended for such treatment as perfectly authentic, we must regard all reproductions of unique works which were conceived as unrepeatable as the equivalent of real forgeries." [10]   Whether copying a pre-existing work of art or assembling a pretense of reality, the straightforwardness of kitsch belies its inherent contradiction as a "real forgery." (seemimesis)" *

*Whitney Rugg