Crossword clues for lowbrow
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also low-brow, "person who is not intellectual," 1902, from low (adj.) + brow. Said to have been coined by U.S. journalist Will Irwin (1873-1948). A low brow on a man as a sign of primitive qualities was common in 19c. fiction, but it also was considered a mark of classical beauty in women.\n\nA low brow and not a very high one is considered beautiful in woman, whereas a high brow and not a low one is the stamp of manhood.
["Medical Review," June 2, 1894]
\nAs an adjective from 1913.Wiktionary
a. unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture. n. Someone or something of low education or culture.
WordNet
n. a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn: philistine]
adj. characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes" [syn: lowbrowed, uncultivated]
Wikipedia
Lowbrow, or lowbrow art, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix, punk music, and hot-rod cultures of the street. It is also often known by the name pop surrealism. Lowbrow art often has a sense of humor – sometimes the humor is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment.
Most lowbrow artworks are paintings, but there are also toys, digital art, and sculpture.
Lowbrow may refer to:
- Lowbrow, relating to, or suitable for a person with little taste or intellectual interest
- 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
Usage examples of "lowbrow".
Jag, Puma Lee-sex queen, fashion setter and homicidal maniac-ripped into yet another two-pound bag of lowbrow snack food.
It was a hard, bitter road he was about to walk, and everyone would line the road to stone him, eggheads and Lowbrows, scientists and laymen.
We find bits and pieces of their solutions that survived the time of flames when the Lowbrows rebelled and ran the eggheads, and the time of starvation and time of troubles that followed when almost four billion men and women and children died of starvation and privation and violence.
The cultural differences are very deep, perhaps irreconcilable, and the Americans obviously have the profoundest contempt for England, rather like the contempt which the ordinary lowbrow Englishman has for the Latin races.
He looked rather ridiculous up there talking about things like the sociological significance of protest and the psychological content of lynching, about the values of the Lowbrow movement and the hypocrisy of Senator Bartlett and his Subcommittee, about the importance of the scientific method and the necessity for the detachment of the scientist.