The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia:About
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Welcome to Art and Popular Culture, a nobrow wiki for the loftiest of intellectuals and the most jaded hedonists; exploring the hidden links between "mainstream" and "underground" culture.
It features these themes and sensibilities and keywords via these artists and theorists. And a bibliography.
Methodology
- "Method of this work: literary montage. I have nothing to say only to show." -- Passagenwerk (1927 - 1940) by Walter Benjamin
- The "rhizome" allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation. --Mille Plateaux - Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, volume 2 of Capitalisme et Schizofrénie (1980)
Biases
- Contrary to the guidelines of Wikipedia, this wiki allows original research and will preferably have a publication bias favoring appreciative criticism.
- In biographies, lots of attention will be given to romantic involvements (cherchez la femme and cherchez l'homme) and means of subsistence.
- Geography: Europe, United States, cross-fertilization between both and French culture.
- Geographical bias: Eurocentrism, Francophilia
- If the wiki were a city, it would feature prominently nightclubs, record stores, a red light districts, museums, second hand book stores and comic shops.
- Notability criteria are different from Wikipedia's. They will be along the lines of artpopcult's POV; see these themes and sensibilities and keywords, canonical artists and theorists
- Body genres
- Preference for otherness and alterity
- Namesakes: importance of homonymy and paronymy are important and strenghten self-referentiality of the wiki.
- General: bias towards the cultish, the transgressive and the nobrow; stereotypical representations
- Music: bias towards black music and underground music
- Film: bias towards cult films, a total disregard Academy Awards
- Fiction: bias towards cult fiction, disregard for Nobel prizes, a bias towards film adaptations
- Art: bias towards the transgressive, erotic, fantastique and grotesque
- Genre: Fantastique preferred over fantasy.
Self-references
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "About" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
