Visual artist as a manager of self images

Abstract

Observing visual artists as they are singular people and trying to point their
professionalization issues involves to
consider them in a social multiverse, a set
of social worlds both governed by organizations and specific ways of exchanging and permeable one to the other. In
the perspective of his professionalization,
the artist has to produce and publicize a
wide variety of speeches about himself
and images of himself whose traces and
clues will help any social actor, in a
unique symbolic configuration, to build
an image of this individual. This redocumentarisation of the identity of the artist,
whose symbolic consistency with the
produced intend is more or less strong,
constitutes the material socially mobilised
for a possible validation of his claim to
recognition.