Terrific framing of that liminal space between influence and celebrity. Butterfield's omission from the Woodstock film really crystalizes how much cultural memory depends on archival accidents rather than actual impact. The distinction you draw between "cult figure," "craft figure," and "curricular figure" is super useful tho, gives langauge to something I've struggled to articulate about why some artists endure differently than others.
Terrific framing of that liminal space between influence and celebrity. Butterfield's omission from the Woodstock film really crystalizes how much cultural memory depends on archival accidents rather than actual impact. The distinction you draw between "cult figure," "craft figure," and "curricular figure" is super useful tho, gives langauge to something I've struggled to articulate about why some artists endure differently than others.