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The Birth of Venus (1863) Alexandre Cabanel

Antichita Romanae (1748) by Piranesi

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)

"Je est un autre" [I is another] --Arthur Rimbaud. (illustration blackface).

Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise by anonymous
Anonymous satirical caricature of the Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise (1717-1757); this engraving is a good example of "pornography" as a tool for political subversion during France's ancien régime.

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.