What Art Means To Me
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ART AND ENTERTAINMENT
The tourism trade, for example, creates or renovates buildings as “points of interest” that have both never been used or can by no means be used for their ostensible purpose. They are as a substitute re-purposed to entertain visitors usually by simulating cultural experiences. Buildings, history and sacred spaces are thus made into commodities for buy.
Vaulting poles, for instance, have been initially made from woods similar to ash, hickory or hazel; in the 19th century bamboo was used and in the twenty first century poles could be made from carbon fibre. Other activities, such as walking on stilts, are still seen in circus performances in the 21st century. Gladiatorial combats, also referred to as “gladiatorial games”, popular during Roman occasions, provide a good example of an exercise that is a mixture of sport, punishment, and leisure.
Collections of stories, corresponding to Grimms’ Fairy Tales or those by Hans Christian Andersen, have been equally influential. Originally published within the early nineteenth century, this collection of folk tales significantly affect fashionable popular culture, which subsequently used its themes, images, symbols, and structural parts to create new leisure types.
Since the 20th century, performed music, as soon as available solely to those who may pay for the performers, has been out there cheaply to individuals by the leisure business, which broadcasts it or pre-records it on the market. Entertainment additionally developed into completely different types and expressions on account of social upheavals similar to wars and … Read More