This collection gathers together the best writing and drawings from the first eight issues of the Lowbrow Reader, a lushly illustrated comedy journal published in New York since 2001, along with brand
Separating popular fiction into "lowbrow" and "middlebrow," Wood (U. of Wisconsin, River Falls) argues that lowbrow, like highbrow, evolves from folkloric tradition and contains messages about how to
'Lowbrow' it may be called, but high-profile best describes the cultural impact of this contemporary art movement. Found everywhere from wine labels and high-end bar accessories to major motion pictu
The first luxury collection of amazing zombie art, produced by more than 200 artists worldwideOnce more, the worlds of movies, computer games, design, lowbrow, and tattoo are experiencing a resurgence
Popular lowbrow artist Isabel Samaras's work is populated with pop culture icons and riffs on the old master painters. This delightful postcard collection highlights her witty, sexy, surreal work.
An engrossing examination of a popular box office genre--the gross-out movie--Laughing Screaming is the first study to take this lowbrow product seriously.
This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ which had an avid genteel readership. It focuses on select translations of true crime wr
Recipes for affordable meals presented so polished you'd never know their "lowbrow" origins, complete with tips and tricks that prove fabulous hosting doesn't have to break the bank.Rachel H
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television
Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms
Since the establishment of the genre of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in terms of critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or pote
Celebrated Pop Surrealist artist Mark Ryden’s newest body of work, presented in this book for the first time. Crowned "the high prince of Lowbrow," Mark Ryden has become a fixture of the contemporary
In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commerical and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where "serious" artists show their wor
In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers
Sylvia Ji’s haunting, seductive and psychedelically tinged portrayals of women offer a whole new slant on femininity, and blur the line between high- and lowbrow art. Ji says that her subjects are sym
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television
Like a corpse in a zombie movie, the Goth movement has been resuscitated—stronger, more powerful, and more contagious than ever before. From fashion to music, Goth influences have crept into ev
Setting out to "make intellectual and emotional sense of a man's relationship with his defining organ," David Friedman moves from highbrow to lowbrow in this lighthearted but substantive cultural his
Don't look here for delicacy and refinement; these women and their works of art speak with brazen attitude. Writer Cullison's preface tells of her attraction to Lowbrow art, a genre she says migrated
William Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gross-out movie - is the first book to take this lowbrow product seriously.Writing about "movies that embraced the lowest comm
A big whopping celebration of New York magazine’s first fifty years—stocked with new material, along with groundbreaking writing from the magazine’s archives by legends like Tom Wolf
Funny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martin’s coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an al
This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbr
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction': the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad know
Kaiju Big Battel, a series of live events that revolve around tournament-style performances, is a tongue-in-cheek hybrid of Japanese-monster-movie mayhem and lowbrow pop-culture. These sold-out events
50 Quotation puzzles from the pages of The New York TimesEdited by Emily Cox and Harry Rathvon New York Times puzzles are America’s favorite!Whether your tastes are literary or lowbrow, this latest in
This decidedly lowbrow contribution to the literature on the marijuana debate is unimpressive in both textual and visual content; many photographs are printed in too-dark, low-contrast b&w (and, s
This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ which had an avid genteel readership. It focuses on select translations of true crime wr
A wake-up call for creatives who need that inspiring kick to finally create the thing they’ve been meaning to make, while celebrating the journey of trying, learning, and failing.Over the last eight y
A sequel to Mitch O’Connell’s bestselling collection of tattoo designs. Over 251 full color tattoo designs by "The Prince of Pop Art," "The Godfather of Lowbrow," and "The Best in the Biz," Mitch
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