No. 9 (2011): Art, participation et démocratie

Coordinated by Delphine Masset.

Since the artistic avant-gardes, reserved for the ‘initiated’, art would be perceived – following its multiple transgressive evolutions – as going hand in hand with social reforms. In modern times, art has thus become the preferred scene to carry out the instauration of a new perception and relationship with the (political) world, far from the day-to-day social conventions and decorum.

Throughout this issue of Émulations, readers can evaluate the relationship between art and democracy in six articles that, as chance would have it, are all written by female researchers. These articles contribute to our understanding of this link between art and politics, both regarding what can be called “democratic art” and the process shaping its dissemination.