Word: lowbrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between "commercial art" and "fine art" is not what it used to be. Many artists now do both kinds of work. One important reason: many an advertiser has discovered that highbrow Art can be harnessed with lowbrow Merchandising...
...Corcoran Biennial carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
Oscar Levant, pianist-composer and brittle-brained, self-styled "lowbrow" quiz expert, became an ex-expert when he made an exit from Information Please. Said he: "I don't mind being off the show. I think it's anticreative. Now I can read things I don't have to remember. It was just like my first marriage. We were not only incompatible. We hated each other...
Picture-of-the-Week: "The Life of Jack London". . . Famous last words: "Gee, honey, I thought you knew I was married" . . . Row K avows Rube Goldberg had been at the blackboard in R.E. the other day--he ran out of pink chalk, however. . . Lowbrow Essay: Snow is little hunks of white stuff, which when warmed...
Thirty years ago music in this country was either something highbrow that happened to a few rich people at the Metropolitan or else it was something lowbrow called ragtime that nobody took seriously. Most Americans thought of music as something from the Old World-of tenors as Italians, of sopranos as big, blonde German women. And the best of our popular music came from Vienna...