nobrow

comparative more nobrow · superlative most nobrow

1. alternativeAlternative form of no-brow.

   […]my argument is that, by the first decades of the twentieth century, the popular-highbrow distinction in literature had already dissolved into nobrow art.

   2005, Peter Swirski, From Lowbrow to Nobrow, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 10

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   The Simpsons is pure Nobrow, able to slide as effortlessly as Bob himself from slide-whistling slapstick to talk of Susan Sontag, and ultimately oblivious to any prejudicial classifications. It's not such much that lowbrow bludgeoned highbrow to death with a dozen rakes; it's that both of them have been subsumed into the one-stop-shopping megamall of pop.

   2005, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson […] , Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 140