Broadcast » Kitsch http://broadcast.palefire.com The Pale Fire Archives Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:13:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Significant Objects http://broadcast.palefire.com/2010/01/significant-objects/ http://broadcast.palefire.com/2010/01/significant-objects/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:45:27 +0000 Andrew http://broadcast.palefire.com/?p=226 Ranking fifth most ‘valuable’ item, and filed away in the mysterious Totem category on the Significant Objects site is this, an exemplar of kitsch and oddly proportioned, Pink Horse.


Pink Horse with a story by Kate Bernheimer

That the Pink Horse sold for a shade over $100, with the original cost a mere hundreth of the selling price seems to vindicate the idea behind Significant Objects -

A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!

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