Context: Nicholas Lezard described post-punk as "a fusion of art and music". The era saw the robust appropriation of ideas from literature, art, cinema, philosophy, politics and critical theory into musical and pop cultural contexts. Artists sought to refuse the common distinction between high and low culture and returned to the art school tradition found in the work of artists such as Captain Beefheart and David Bowie. Among major influences on a variety of post-punk artists were writers such as William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, avant-garde political scenes such as Situationism and Dada, and intellectual movements such as postmodernism. Many artists viewed their work in explicitly political terms. Additionally, in some locations, the creation of post-punk music was closely linked to the development of efficacious subcultures, which played important roles in the production of art, multimedia performances, fanzines and independent labels related to the music. Many post-punk artists maintained an anti-corporatist approach to recording and instead seized on alternate means of producing and releasing music. Journalists also became an important element of the culture, and popular music magazines and critics became immersed in the movement.

Question: How did Nicholas Lezard describe post-punk?
Answer: fusion of art and music

Question: Which artists were influential in post-punk?
Answer: Captain Beefheart and David Bowie

Question: Which writers helped to influence the post-punk movement?
Answer: William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard

Question: What was an intellectual focus of post-punk?
Answer: postmodernism

Question: How did the post-punk movement feel about big business?
Answer: anti-corporatist

Question: What was Nicholas Lezard's description of post-punk?
Answer: "a fusion of art and music"

Question: Where did post-punk ram its appropriation of ideas into?
Answer: musical and pop cultural contexts

Question: What tradition could be found in works by Captain Beefheart and David Bowie?
Answer: art school

Question: What intellectual movement informed and influenced a variety of post-punk artists?
Answer: postmodernism

Question: Why did many post-punk artists produce and release their own music?
Answer: anti-corporatist

Question: What does L.G Ballard describes post-punk  as?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did artists want to make a distinction between?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What disciplines appropriated ideas from post-punk?
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Question: What writers were influenced by the post-punk movement?
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Question: What culture did journalists not participate in?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How did Nicholas Lezard  refuse to describe post-punk?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which artists did not influence post-punk?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was not an intellectual focus of post-punk?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why did post-punk artists never produce and release their own music?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was not an important element of the culture?
Answer: Unanswerable