Polemics and questions concerning culture classifications: high, low, folk, mass - DOI 10.5216/vis.v10i1.23088
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Based on Cultural Studies and Visual Cultural Education’s perspectives, this article discusses the relations between “folk culture” and “high culture” delineating a synthetic overview of these concepts. Taking the notion of authenticity as premise which defines manifestations of high culture arrays, the article examines arguments that oppose the idea of “mass culture” or, “low culture” explaining how they belittle the notion “popular urban” while privileging intellectualized self-expression in accordance to references legitimated by critics and authors specialized in restricted repertoires of art history.
Keywords: Classifications of culture, power, images
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