L’ARTISTE PLASTICIEN, ENTREPRENEUR EN IMAGES DE SOI

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