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Are Artists Born or Made?

Summary/Abstract: Inherent in the controversies concerning the nature of art, whether in the art world per se or in the generally problematic cohabitation of sociology and art, is the agency by which it is created, centering on the person – or personnage – of the artist. Does it matter who creates the work? How the creator comes to be an artist? Does the artist work alone or as part of a group? As the author suggests at the end of her encompassing synthesis of the relevant theories of artistic agency, whatever the conception of the artist, whether individualistic expert in emotions, virtuoso performer, role player in an institutional microworld, or alienated pawn buffeted by broad social structural forces, the artist is best understood as arising from and interacting with those forces. In other words, just as art is a social-historical construction, so is the artist.

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