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“Since 1960s pop art the art world has been happy for artists to use the lowbrow to add zest and authenticity to their works. But middlebrow has resonances of the suburban bourgeousie who might see art as aspirational by association.”

Art Class Lowbrow Middlebrow Culture

Book:Playing to the Gallery

Source: Playing to the Gallery

“There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura they have, and that's determined by the people who read the stuff, not by the book itself. There's no such thing as 'the book itself.”

Fiction Books Myths Pulp Pop Art Aura Fine Art Genres Lowbrow Highbrow

Book:Min kamp 5

Source: Min kamp 5

“LEO MERCURÉ: The Daily Express says (the play)’s disgusting. GILDA: We should be cut to the quick if it said anything else.”

Lowbrow Conventionalism Highbrow

Book:Design for Living

Source: Design for Living

“I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.”

Culture Pops Pop Culture Lowbrow

Author:St. Vincent

“I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.”

Thinking Art Film Certain Quality Share Visuals Similarity Hyper Lowbrow

Author:John Waters

“So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.”

Shows Interesting Comedy Theater Mixtures Comedy Shows Lowbrow

Author:Jasper Fforde

“No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.”

Games Football Obligation Beer Enjoyment Football Game Lowbrow

Author:Woody Allen

“Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.”

Kind Different Pleasure Music Tea Different Kinds Lowbrow

Author:Rose Macaulay

“What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.”

Art Social Structure Elites Bourgeoisie Social Structure Lowbrow

Book:Confessions of a dilettante

Source: Confessions of a dilettante

“[Virginia Madsen] big part in that movie ['Class'] required her shirt to get ripped off, and looking back, it couldn't be a more egregious, vintage, lowbrow, 1980s Porky's-esque, shoehorned-in moment. Like, you would never have that moment in a movie that aspired to be what that movie did today.”

Moments Bigs Today Class Like You Shirts That Moment Looking Back Virginia Ripped Vintage Lowbrow

Author:Rob Lowe

“No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town.”

“His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.”

Has Beens Comedy Influence Example Brother Horror Lows Budgets Strings Peter 80s Stretching Prominent Citing Quentin Tarantino Lowbrow

Author:Lou Lumenick