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Literature & Art Across Frontiers: Snobs vs. slobs
From Spider-Man to Britney Spears to The Apprentice, America's identity is dominated by popular culture, both here and abroad. Yet the fine arts - painting, the symphony, literature - have always been part of the cultural mix, even if they have lost some of their cachet in recent decades.
There is nothing more American than the Three Stooges throwing a pie in the face of a soprano warbling Voices of Spring at a soiree.
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