lowbrow vs middlebrow

lowbrow

noun
  • Someone or something of low education or culture. 

  • An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc. 

adj
  • Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture. 

middlebrow

noun
  • A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between. 

adj
  • Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between. 

How often have the words lowbrow and middlebrow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )