Two Paradigms – Two Art Worlds: On Constructing the Difference as a Strategy for Validating the Concept of the Artist and Art

Agata Sulikowska-Dejena

doi:10.18778/1733-8069.17.3.06

Authors

Agata Sulikowska-Dejena University of Rzeszów, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5582-0597

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.17.3.06

Keywords:

modern paradigm, contemporary paradigm, constructing the difference, art world, visual arts

Abstract

The subject of the article is two art worlds in the field of visual arts which currently exist side by side in Poland. These worlds operate as part of two different paradigms of art, which is why two different definitions of the art and artist apply to them, and, in consequence, also different models of operation. What is important in the case of both communities is the process of constructing the difference and separating out their own communities of meanings, being a strategy to lend credence to their own concept of the art and artist, as well as their position in the art world. The aim of the article is to describe the process of constructing internal boundaries in the Polish art world and its division into two separate worlds, what means have been used in that process, as well as what are the consequences of belonging to the two separate art worlds for their participants.

Author Biography

Agata Sulikowska-Dejena, University of Rzeszów, Poland

Agata Sulikowska-Dejena holds M.A. in Art History (a graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań); currently a PhD student at the University of Rzeszów (Institute of Sociological Studies). Her scientific interests include the sociology of culture and the sociology of art, contemporary art, anthropology, and qualitative methodology. She is an art curator and an author of papers on contemporary art, identity, and female artists.

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