In Popular Culture
- Jacob Wrestling with the Angel is the subject of a 1940 sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
- It is a chapter in Herman Hesse's novel Demian (1919)
- It is mentioned in Dodie Smith's debut novel I Capture the Castle (1948).
- It was referenced in the 1990 play Angels in America by Tony Kushner. The version depicted on-screen was the 1865 version by Alexander Louis Leloir.
- It was mentioned in Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel" published in 1964.
- It is mentioned in the U2 song "Bullet the Blue Sky" on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree.
- It is mentioned in the Switchfoot song "Twenty-Four" on their 2003 album The Beautiful Letdown ("I wrestled the Angel, for more than a name").
- Gustave Dore's image is reenacted in Jean-Luc Godard's Passion by a film extra dressed as an angel and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.
- It is referenced in Rainer Maria Rilke's poem, "The Man Watching" published in 1920.
- It is mentioned in Maud Hart Lovelace's novel Betsy's Wedding, first published in 1955.
- It is mentioned in Sheila Heti's novel, "How Should A Person Be?" published in 2012.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.”
—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)