high culture
Noun
Meaning
high culture (uncountable)
The artistic entertainment and material artifacts associated with a society's aristocracy or most learned members, usually requiring significant education to be appreciated or highly skilled labor to be produced.
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In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things-opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
But many other Indians are cast in that mould, Indians in their basic culture though their high culture is western.
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.