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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

S. Fowler Wright

By: Joshua Glenn

He wrote cranky Radium Age science fiction parables.

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Marsden Hartley

By: Brian Berger

The painter’s substantial literary achievement is less well-known.

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Palmolive

By: Lynn Peril

“Adventures Close to Home” became one fan’s anthem.

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A Rondel for HiLo Heroes (4)

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2012.

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Alasdair Gray

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

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Judy Henske

By: Gary Panter

The Queen of the Beatniks produced a psych masterpiece in 1969.

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Paul Klee

By: David Smay

There are no painters as articulate, self-aware, and playful.

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Remedios Varo

By: William Nericcio

Uncanny, sensual, playfully transgressive art.

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Tycho Brahe

By: Peggy Nelson

His data pointed to a radical theory of planetary motion.

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Junkyard Dog

By: Tom Nealon

A hero and victim of pro wrestling’s “kayfabe.”

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Gertrud Kolmar

By: Jerrold Freitag

Everything was a reagent for her compositions.

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Diego Rivera

By: William Nericcio

He re-visioned the history of the Americas.

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Gary Panter

By: Dan Nadel

Innumerable artists have based their entire careers on the briefest of his ideas.

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Gordon Parks

By: Brian Berger

“Too much at stake: art, integrity, black power.”

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Jim Nutt

By: Gary Panter

Grotesque distorted candy-color figures twist and writhe.

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