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The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jahsonic's project to seek connections, bridges and intersections between high culture, pulp and avant-garde,
or, towards a postmodern canon.
This wiki, started on April 8, 2007, has 67,700 articles on July 25, 2010.
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The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) is an oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet. Painted in the early 1860s, the juxtaposition of a female nude with fully dressed men sparked controversy when the work was first exhibited at the Salon des Refusés. See Venus in the 19th century

Amour - érotisme & cinéma by Ado Kyrou

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).

If this encyclopedia were a city, it would feature prominently nightclubs, record stores, red light districts, museums, libraries, second hand book stores and comic book shops.
Biases

Contrary to the guidelines of Wikipedia (of which this encyclopedia is a remix), this encyclopedia allows original research and has a publication bias favoring appreciative criticism.
In biographies, lots of attention is given to romantic involvements (cherchez la femme and cherchez l'homme) and patronage.
Geography: Europe, United States, cross-fertilization between the Anglosphere and Francosphere.
- Geographical bias: Eurocentrism, Francophilia; see these themes and sensibilities and keywords, canonical artists and theorists
Body genres
Preference for otherness and alterity
Namesakes: importance of homonymy and paronymy are important and strenghten self-referentiality of the encyclopedia.
General: bias towards the cultish, the transgressive and the nobrow; stereotypical representations
Music: bias towards black music and underground music, see category World Music Classics
Film: bias towards cult films, a total disregard Academy Awards
Fiction: bias towards cult fiction and transgressional fiction, disregard for Nobel prizes, a bias towards film adaptations
Art: bias towards the transgressive, erotic, fantastique and grotesque; Faultlines in 20th century art
Genre: Fantastique preferred over fantasy.

Almanac e

Calavera de la Catrina (before 1913) by José Guadalupe Posada, see Deaths in 2010

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

About us

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

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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Keywords of culture e

Ruggiero rescuing Angelica in Orlando Furioso, engraving by Gustave Doré.

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.