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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 3357342, member: 55&quot;]Sure.&nbsp; I might mention that I know a couple of scholars and artists who also collect kitsch.&nbsp; In particular, they have collected &quot;route 66 kachinas&quot; from the 1960s.&nbsp; These are, to be blunt, a perversion or denigration of Native American cultural items into tourist souvenirs; but when you put together a collection of hundreds of them, they also tell a story about American culture and attitudes of that period.</p><p>Similarly, I&#039;ve seen a museum exhibit about the &quot;beckoning cats,&quot; maniki-neko; undeniably kitsch, but when explored in detail, much more than just that.&nbsp; The earliest one in the exhibit dates to 1655.</p><p><a href="http://nwasianweekly.com/2013/03/japans-beckoning-cats-visit-bellevue/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://nwasianweekly.com/2013/03/japans-beckoning-cats-visit-bellevue/" rel="nofollow">http://nwasianweekly.com/2013/03/japans-beckoning-cats-visit-bellevue/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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