Caesars Palace : The First Themed Casino in Las Vegas
of popular culture . The most pertinent one divided this term into high and low culture . Curators and docents sanction the art of high culture that resides in museums and galleries . The art of low culture is residual , reproduced , found in the marketplace , and marked with the stigma of social class differences . Cultural elites entertain a certain condescension concerning popular culture , which only serves to enflame the passions of its devotees . The replicas of Caesars Palace transformed high art into an invitation to seduction .
Lithographs fascinated German literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin . He described copies of an original as flexible , accessible , decorative , and anonymous . The art works in Caesars represents all of these categories . Sarno commissioned several statues of Caesar Prima Porta , David , and Venus , sculpted in different sizes and serving diverse purposes . He ordered bespoke art in various media : cast and sculpted statues , bas-relief , and paintings . The scope of this collection is wide , from Eastern to Western , Archaic Greek to modern . Many of the art works are in the gardens , the casino , and the Forum , but there are also numerous objects of interest in the pools , spas , luxury suites , and corridors of the various hotel towers .
The art at Caesars is available all day and night , seven days a week . Visitors can walk up to it , touch it , and have a picture taken with it . The resort decorates the art on holidays and special events like Gay Pride Week or Breast Cancer Awareness Month . Such approachability brings this world-famous casino squarely into the realm of popular culture . Art decorates the casino and reinforces its theme . Museums identify their art as original . Every piece supposedly is authentic with provenance . Replica art is , more often than not , anonymous . “ Caesars collapses the historical specificity of individual Roman emperors into one mega-emperor . What matters most
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