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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Mildred Harnack

By: Alix Lambert

The American who helped start the anti-Nazi German resistance.

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Jackson Publick

By: Tucker Cummings

He lovingly deconstructs pop culture for a post-recession generation.

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Géza Róheim

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He persuaded cannibals to confess their dreams.

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Jackie De Shannon

By: Devin McKinney

She opened every lock in your personal house of love.

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Sid Laverents

By: Barbara Bogaev

Le Chien Andalou meets your Uncle Marv’s home movies

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

By: Tor Aarestad

A lethally and incessantly clever futurist.

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Emmeline Pankhurst

By: Tucker Cummings

The UK’s first action heroine.

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Gerald Finzi

By: Brian Berger

“It’s worthwhile knowing that Homer could nod.”

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

By: Jessica Bruder

Fashion plate, poet, proto-punk and feminist performance artist.

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Percy Grainger

By: Brian Berger

The high-life of the composer of “Molly On The Shore.”

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Frida Kahlo

By: Adam McGovern

Her art reflected feelings that no one could speak.

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P.T. Barnum

By: Suzanne Fischer

He empowered people to choose to be fooled, for a fee.

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Robert Desnos

By: Lucy Sante

“Surrealism is the order of the day, and Desnos is its prophet”

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Yellow Kid Weil

By: Chris Spurgeon

The most ingenious American of all time.

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June Carter Cash

By: Brian Berger

Her energy, wit and lithe sexuality made her a star.

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