high culture
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Encyclopedic overview
The Creation of Adam, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling – an example of high culture
In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value that a society collectively highly esteems. It can include works of art (such as literature and music), history, and philosophy that a society considers respectable representatives of its culture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “high culture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.