Lowbrow

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Lowbrow may refer to:

  • Lowbrow, relating to, or suitable for a person with little taste or intellectual interest, the converse of highbrow
  • Lowbrow, forms of entertainment that are unsophisticated, i.e. not difficult or requiring much intelligence to be understood
  • Lowbrow (art movement), describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s
  • Low culture, a derogatory term for some forms of popular culture
  • Lowbrow, the original title of the pilot of the Cartoon Network series Megas XLR
  • Danger: Low Brow, a radio comedy show from Melbourne aired from 1985 to 1991
  • Low comedy, a form of unsophisticated entertainment

See also[edit]

  • Highbrow, synonymous with intellectual
  • Middlebrow, describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature, as well as the population that uses art to acquire culture and class that is usually unattainable