CRI 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Cultural Entrepreneurship: Aestheticism, Pauperism, Boston Art Club
17 Jan 2017
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Cultural entrepreneurship in 19th century boston: the creation of an organizational base for high culture in america. The american distinction between high and popular culture emerged in between 1850- 1990 out of the efforts of urban elites to build organizational forms that isolated and differentiated high culture from popular culture. Cultural capitalists: those who sacralise art, define high culture and popular culture and institutionalize this classification. Capitalism; founded the museums and the symphony orchestras that embodied the high- cultural ideal. Their wealth came from the management of these industrial enterprises. Culturalism; they then, in turn, invested some of these profits in the foundation and maintenance of distinctly cultural enterprises. Entrepreneurship the creation of an organizational form that could be controlled and governed: classification clear, defined boundaries between art and entertainment. Athenaeum, could not claim to speak for the community as a whole, even if they chose to.
