The two essays wotrth reading in this book, Greenberg's and Broch's, are both seminal essays on the issue of kitsch and contemporary culture. All other texts, especially Dorfle's, are hopelessly out-date and hopelessly out of touch with the signifigance of the narrowing gap between high and low art. The basic premise of the book: High art is good, low art is bad, is dull and un-nuanced. Wothwhile as an example of the last dying gasps of modernism and a relic of 1960's anti-authority naivete, but that's all.