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The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jahsonic's project to seek nobrow connections, bridges and intersections
between high culture, low culture and avant-garde,
or, towards a postmodern canon.
This wiki, started on April 8, 2007, has 91,241 articles on May 20, 2012.
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Mona Lisa (detail) is a 16th century painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings in the world, mainly due to its outspoken gaze.

"Nana" by Édouard Manet, see Venus in the 19th century

Hollywood is iconic for modern mythology

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).

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Calavera de la Catrina (before 1913) by José Guadalupe Posada, see deaths in 2012

Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica by Robert Fludd
"Ideas enter our above-ground culture through the underground. I suppose that is the kind of function that the underground plays, such as it is. That it is where the dreams of our culture can ferment and strange notions can play themselves out unrestricted. And sooner or later those ideas will percolate through into the broad mass awareness of the broad mass of the populace. Occulture, you know, that seems to be perhaps the last revolutionary bastion." -- Alan Moore

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About us

Théatre de Besançon, completed in 1784, interior view by Claude Nicolas Ledoux
God sees all

Ars Memoriae: The Theatre (1619) - Robert Fludd

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.

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)

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Reverse Side Of a Painting (1670) by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members. The various editions also contain the rules of the Church relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of immoral books or works containing theological errors and to prevent the corruption of the faithful.