High Art Doesn’t Exist in America
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Judging by its lack of pop spoofing, high art doesn’t exist anymore in America. Now talk shows, ads and popular films get sent up; when opera, dance, theater or even literary fiction are parodied, it’s often not with affection but with condescension — remember Mike Myers’s “Sprockets” sketches on SNL? This isn’t new, as America has always had a strong anti-intellectual, anti-high art strain fed by misguided populism. Read more…
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