2. Lesson Objective
To comment on high and low art hybrids.
How are these postmodern and what do they
say about contemporary culture?
3. The distinction
There are distinctions between art
High art tends to be that which is appreciated
by more cultivated tastes like classical music,
poetry and ballet
While low art is aimed at the masses, is
accessible and is easily comprehended.
Examples of low art would be cinema and
comic books.
4. Something new
Cinema is largely considered as mass entertainment
and low art, so juxtaposing it with "high" art is seen as
a way of producing something new.
Postmodern text experiments with existing forms and
conventions.
artistic and stylistic eclecticism (aesthetic post-
modernism) hybridization of forms and genres,
combining "high" and "low" cultural forms and
sources, mixing styles of different cultures or time
periods, dehistoricizing and re-contextualizing styles in
architecture, visual arts, literature, film, photography
5. Black Swan(2010 dir. Darren
Aronofsky)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaI1XOB-
bs
6. Romeo & Juliet (1996 dir. Baz
Luhrmann)
http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=60022
807&trkid=50361909&tctx=0,0,1e9710bc-6a9b-
411d-a352-
04b04ee30675#entityId=Romeo%20&%20Juliet
reworking the story by setting it in modern times
7. What are the advantages
and disadvantages of high
and low art hybrids?
