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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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!["Je est un autre" [I is another] --Arthur Rimbaud. (illustration blackface).](/Image:Blackface.jpg)
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.
