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Welcome to '''Art and Popular Culture''', a [[nobrow]] wiki for the [[lofty|loftiest]] of [[intellectual]]s and the most [[jaded]] [[hedonists]]; exploring the [[hidden]] links between "[[mainstream]]" and "[[underground]]" culture. | Welcome to '''Art and Popular Culture''', a [[nobrow]] wiki for the [[lofty|loftiest]] of [[intellectual]]s and the most [[jaded]] [[hedonists]]; exploring the [[hidden]] links between "[[mainstream]]" and "[[underground]]" culture. | ||
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Biases | Biases |
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![Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background. (Photo by Walery)](/images/thumb/200px-Josephine_Baker_dancing_the_Charleston_to_an_Art_Deco-styole_background.jpg)
Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background.
(Photo by Walery)
(Photo by Walery)
If this wiki were a city, it would feature prominently nightclubs, record stores, red light districts, museums, libraries, second hand book stores and comic book shops.
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.
Biases
- Contrary to the guidelines of Wikipedia, this wiki allows original research and has 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 the Anglosphere and Francosphere.
- 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, see category World Music Classics
- 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.