The artist and the entrepreneur were idealized as mirroring masculine creators

Evidence

The mythological figure of the artist was held up as the mirror image of the economic entrepreneur: both individuals imposed their masculine will on the world and begat productive order out of meaningless or wasteful nature (see Wolff 1984). — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 436

Categorization

• SEED: Potential angle: how the romantic-genius myth and the entrepreneur myth were twin inventions of the same bourgeois imagination, and how ‘creative entrepreneurship’ inherits both.
• XREF: connects to: Man projects his own unattainable interiority onto woman as mirror and Other — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 401; The modern cult of creative genius was invented to legitimize bourgeois distinction — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 436

Broader Connections

• The modern cult of creative genius was invented to legitimize bourgeois distinction #corroborates (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 436
• Man projects his own unattainable interiority onto woman as mirror and Other #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 401