Institutional prestige can eventually embrace once-reviled bad taste

Evidence

These accolades from hallowed institutions are an unexpected outcome for the “Prince of Puke,” a director notorious for filming some of the most revolting moments in movie history. Waters wrote in the early eighties, “If someone vomits watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation.” Yet his explorations into the depraved depths of bad taste have won Waters acclaim from the high priests of good taste. Maybe this was the plan all along. “One must remember,” writes Waters, “that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.” — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 240

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in status dynamics and how cultural capital gets revalued across time. — connects to: An individual tastemaker can infiltrate and collapse remaining status boundaries from within — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 360; A market emerged for formerly discredited aristocratic and antidemocratic ideologies — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 803; Art capitulates when it purges all trace of its pre-artistic, vulgar roots — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2721 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Art capitulates when it purges all trace of its pre-artistic, vulgar roots #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2721
• A market emerged for formerly discredited aristocratic and antidemocratic ideologies #expands (0.78) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 803
• An individual tastemaker can infiltrate and collapse remaining status boundaries from within #exemplifies (0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 360
• Institutionalized discursive practices can lose credibility and collapse #qualifies (0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 53