Eclectisme dans l’art et éducation artistique

Abstract

If contemporary art seems opaque, it might largely be due to the presence of a world of reference that include some people and exclude others, via various forms of interactions between significant actors. This idea is defended here by Delphine Masset, who presents some insights taken from her master’s dissertation in sociology, which focused on the teaching of contemporary art. The questions she raises reflects her will to try and uncover interactional, communicational and normative stakes shaping the teaching of contemporary art in today’s art schools.
The originality of her approach indeed resides in the transposition into the artistic field, of political deliberative theories. More precisely, her aim is to show how common processes of socialisation are constructed by the various kinds of interactions between artists, and how these processes participate in return to the elaboration of a common world of reference structured by more or less codified practices.