Lowbrow may refer to:
* Lowbrow, relating to, or suitable for a person with little taste or intellectual interest, the converse of
highbrow
Used 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 term, first recorded in 1875, draws its metonymy from the pseud ...
* Lowbrow, forms of entertainment that are unsophisticated, i.e. not difficult or requiring much intelligence to be understood
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Lowbrow (art movement)
Lowbrow, or lowbrow art, is an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California area in the late 1960s. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix, punk music, tiki culture, graffiti, and ...
, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s
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Low culture
Low or LOW or lows, may refer to:
People
* Low (surname), listing people surnamed Low
Places
* Low, Quebec, Canada
* Low, Utah, United States
* Lo Wu station (MTR code LOW), Hong Kong; a rail station
* Salzburg Airport (ICAO airport code: ...
, a derogatory term for some forms of popular culture
* ''Lowbrow'', the original title of the pilot of the Cartoon Network series ''
Megas XLR
''Megas XLR'' is an American animated television series created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around two slackers: mechanic Coop and his best friend Jamie, who find a mecha robot from the future ...
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Danger: Low Brow, a radio comedy show from Melbourne aired from 1985 to 1991
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Low comedy
Low comedy, or lowbrow humor, is a type of comedy that is a form of popular entertainment without any primary purpose other than to create laughter through boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery and other rio ...
, a form of unsophisticated entertainment
See also
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Highbrow
Used 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 term, first recorded in 1875, draws its metonymy from the pseud ...
, synonymous with intellectual
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Middlebrow
The term middlebrow describes ''middlebrow art'', which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and ''middlebrow people'' who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation. First used ...
, 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
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