Lowbrow
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Lowbrow may refer to:
- Lowbrow, relating to, or suitable for a person with little taste or intellectual interest
- Lowbrow (art movement)Lowbrow (art movement)Lowbrow, or lowbrow art, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, and other subcultures. It is also...
, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s - Low cultureLow cultureLow culture is a term for some forms of popular culture. Its opposite is high culture. It has been said by culture theorists that both high culture and low culture are subcultures....
, a derogatory term for some forms of popular culture - Lowbrow, the original title of the pilot of the Cartoon Network series Megas XLRMegas XLRMegas XLR is an American animated television series that aired on the Toonami block on Cartoon Network and is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It was created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic...
- Danger: Low BrowDanger: Low BrowDanger: Low Brow was a comedy show on Melbourne radio station 3RRR from 1985 to 1991, before moving to Triple M and then Fox FM.-Members & Where Are They Now:The original members of the show were:...
, a radio comedy show from Melbourne aired from 1985 to 1991
See also
- HighbrowHighbrowUsed colloquially as a noun or adjective, highbrow is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor...
, synonymous with intellectual - MiddlebrowMiddlebrowThe term middlebrow describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature, as well as the population that uses art to acquire culture and class that is usually unattainable. First used by the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, middlebrow is derived as the intermediary between...
, describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature, as well as the population that uses art to acquire culture and class that is usually unattainable