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Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow?

The House Next Door found this 5/14/2008 on blogs.suntimes.com

View image What brow(s) are this? When I hear the word "middlebrow," I always think of Frida Kahlo. But, wait, that's something else. This post is in preparation for a pending one about " Speed Racer " (and the brilliant appreciations of it by Glenn Kenny and Dennis Cozzalio ) -- a movie I naturally assumed would be (re-)viewed as the product of high (avant garde), middle ( auteurist ...