Art and Entertainment

T HE FAMILIAROPPOSITION between "high" and "popular" culture, born in the romantic era, is inherently always in the process of dissolving. The justification of the market can never quite satisfy the producers of popular art; but, at the other end of the spectrum, the differential claims of high art are belied by their very need for articulation. It is in this ever-problematic distinction that the founding opposition between the sacred and the profane maintains its experiential relevance for modern culture.