Destinies of artistic activity

Visual artists' plural forms of employment and trade-offs in a French region

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21545142
AutoresIsabelle Mayaud (Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris), Laurent Jeanpierre (0000-0001-8309-3350, Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris)
Año2020
Número157
Páginas125-144
Fecha de publicación2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociologia del Lavoro (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0392-5048 • E-ISSN: 1972-554X
EditorialFranco Angeli (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3280/sl2020-157007
OpenAlexW3092011011
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas29

Based on a recent survey on the artistic work in a French region, the article consid-ers visual artists as a control population illustrating the possible destinies of low or poorly paid self-employment in contemporary capitalism. Artistic activities mainly attract graduates and people from the upper classes who nevertheless accept to be paid very little for their art and even, as entrepreneurs would do, to invest regularly in order to continue their activity. The maintenance of their artistic vocation then requires recourse to secondary income from social benefits, family resources or the development of complementary remunerative activities. Since all these possible combinations are not equally accessible, they determine variable regimes of artis-tic production, self-presentation and various articulations between salaried and non-salaried activities, the borderline case of which is the abandonment of crea-tion

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