High and Low Modernism....?

[BuddingScholar]

Does anyone know of any god essays on or authors that have written about "the displacement" of the high/low (popular) distinctions of modernism?

 

Thank you!

[condivi]

Sontag?

[cleisthenes]

One that comes to mind, if I am understanding your question, is Thomas Crow's excellent book Modern Art in the Common Culture.  Not so much about the displacement of the terms "high"/"low" in the discourse of art history as it is, itself, a book aiming to do that work of displacement..

 

C.

[losemygrip]

There were two publications with MoMA's big "High/Low" show years ago, but I'm not sure that's exactly what you're getting at here.

[poliscar]

Andreas Huyssen's After the Great Divide is still probably the best text in the area.