Laurence--Kitsch-Man--???

In Abigail's Party, the audience is brought into the world of middle class 'things.' It seems when Beverly is not forcing drinks upon her house guests or discussing their relationships, she has them talking about her furniture, replica-paintings, records and even kitchen appliances. Her world is 'things, ' it is essentially Kitsch: "a realm of artificial imagery...Created by a desperate compulsion to escape from the abstract sameness." (Cainesco, 226)
While Beverly visibly partakes in Kitsch, dancing to the popular music of Elvis and Donna Summer, her husband Laurence takes an ambiguous interest in the classics of Beethoven and Dickens. The question for me became whether we are meant to see him as moving beyond kitsch or just manifesting a different type? Is he not really just enjoying the ascetic of what he sees as 'high culture,' while disregarding its impact?
For Laurence, Dickens comes in a package of "Complete Works" (Leigh, 40) and Van Gogh can only be viewed in replication. He holds the the world of the artist at the highest regard and dreams of "Montmartre by night, the Champs Elysees, boulevard cafes..." (Leigh, 46) The world of the artist is separate from his own; an place where the mystical and extraordinary rule over the mundane and normal. Dickens is 'high culture,' not the popular culture of its conception. Laurence displays his 'things' as objects, just as Beverly displays her furniture and kitchen appliances. He is perceiving "even a genuine works of art as kitsch," (Cainesco, 249) as objects, as "art that has a predictable audience, predictable effects, predictable rewards." (Cainesco, 253)
For all his posturing is Laurence then not the Kitsch-man to Beverly's Kitsch-woman? Is high culture in hands of some, no different then popular culture in others? Can popular culture, then become a vehicle for an artist to move beyond kitsch? Don't forget Dickens once belong to the world of mass culture....As a serial novelist!!!