Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… it was based on utility (not that these two forms were necessarily mutually exclusive). The ‘good’ patron rewarded the merit of an artist, whether it had already manifested itself in superior artworks or was still nascent, a potential that … Both gain cultural recognition in this exchange. The values exchanged in this ‘economy’ of patronage are ‘reward’ and ‘merit’, the poetic or artistic capability of the person receiving patronage. 1 . For example Charles Churchill, The … critical standards rather than economic considerations and continue the (idealized) tradition of the patron as rewarding merit. Patronage of the other arts and the sciences had its own specific differences, but the general trend that has here …
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