TY - JOUR AU - Sikorska, Karolina PY - 2018/08/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - “DEER IN RUT”: ON ART’S DEMONS AND LIMITS OF POPULAR ART JF - Literatura Ludowa. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture JA - JFPC VL - 62 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.12775/LL.1.2018.002 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/article/view/LL.1.2018.002 SP - 24-38 AB - <p>In this article I consider the role of popular artistic representations, first of all referring to perfectly known but ill-famed motive of “deer in rut”. Starting with “art-culture”, the scheme proposed by James Clifford, I try to argue for the fluidity and cultural contextualization of paintings which escape easy categorizations as bad art or kitsch. As a result, through the analysis of meanings of this kind of representations, I attempt to point out how these representations are situated both in the sphere of high (modern) art and in popular culture, still synonymous with low culture. I also show results of this polysemous entanglement.</p> ER -