Mate, everyone's gran wants a China kitten washing its face be they a coal miner or a coal magnate. If you think kitsch is a tool of working class oppression yo

Mate, everyone's gran wants a China kitten washing its face be they a coal miner or a coal magnate. If you think kitsch is a tool of working class oppression you haven't spent enough time in the China collections of the museum. The commoditisation of art is personified by "bubbles" by John Everertt Millais and "Monarch of the Glen" by Edwin Landseer. The first is in the Lady lever collection at Port sunlight across from Liverpool, along with most of the pre raphelites, and the latter is in the Scottish National Gallery. Both were distributed widely to the peoples of the empire, tuppence coloured penny plain, and according to my sister adorn Turkish walls as a carpet, far too good to walk on. Also.. "Chinese Girl" by Vladimir Tretchikoff..