Manifestations
Reality television, popular music, escapist fiction, kitsch, slapstick, camp, toilet humor, yellow journalism, pornography, and exploitation films are often cited examples of low culture. It has often been stated that in postmodern times, the boundary between high and low culture has blurred. The 1990's artwork of Jeff Koons appropriate low art tropes of kitsch and pornography. Rhys Chatham's musical piece Guitar Trio 1977 is an example of incorporating (low culture) "primitive" punk rock esthetics into contemporary classical music.
Romanticism was one of the first movements to reappraise "low culture," when previously maligned medieval romances were taken seriously and influenced literature.
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