From: "Steve Armstrong" <wegway-AT-sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: modernism and the middlebrow
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:22:37 -0400


I'm relying on distant long-term memory here, but I think middlebrow was
coined by Clement Greenberg, possibly in the essay Avant-garde and Kitsch.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fabrizio V." <faviv-AT-katamail.com>
To: <modernism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: modernism and the middlebrow


>
> Dear "et al.",
>
> I searched for _middlebrow_ in Cambridge Int'l Dictionary of English and
> the entry is:
>
> Mid-dle-brow: Adj. Esp. disapproving (of music, literature, art or film)
> of good quality, interesting and often popular, but not needing very
> much thought to understand.
>
> A middlebrow is a person who enjoys middlebrow music, art, etcetera.
>
> My two eurocents, anyway.
>
> Fabrizio Vivoli - Universit degli Studi di Firenze. Italy.
>
>