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If you want something less classic but still high brow, you could try the 2022 booker longlist or women's prize for fiction. Or for more obscure "highbrow" books from before, you could check out New York Review Books who republish previously out-of-published classic works.
Highbrow. Philip Melanchthon, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1526. Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, " highbrow " is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture.
In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian de...
May 26, 2012 · Click through to check out our list of new highbrow books that are still beach-appropriate, and if we’ve missed your own favorite, be sure to add to our list in the comments!
Jul 29, 2014 · This week, Thomas Mallon and Pankaj Mishra discuss whether there is any use in retaining old labels of cultural prestige. By Thomas Mallon. “We all need a splash of bad taste,” Diana Vreeland ...
Sep 1, 1990 · Three distinct areas are covered in the book's three chapters: Chapter One, "William Shakespeare in America" focuses on the popularity and decline of the performance of Shakespeare's works; Chapter Two, "The Sacralization of Culture" highlights the development and developing highbrow status of symphonies and orchestras; and Chapter Three ...
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This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbrow vs. lowbrow is incapable of doing justice to the complexity and artistry of cultural production.
