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- Title
Ritratto dell'artista da lavoratore: posture estetiche in La carte et le territoire.
- Authors
Baratta, Aldo
- Abstract
According to Lipovetsky and Serroy, beauty has risen to a new ontological requirement: the aesthetic phenomenon has expanded beyond its traditional boundaries, influencing reality and above all the economic dimension. The result has been an art market in which the aesthetic work responds to unprecedented hierarchies of value and the author finds himself assuming professional postures fueled by innovative deontologies. This contribution intends to investigate the transformations that the aesthetic job undergoes within the late capitalist and post-Fordist logic through a close reading of Michel Houellebecq's La carte et le territoire. In the novel it is possible to observe the professional attitudes of three different artists: the photographer and painter Jed Martin, the fictional writer Michel Houellebecq and - through a metanarrative refraction - the narrator Michel Houellebecq. All three face the professionalization of the artistic activity oscillating between the poles of a dialectic that is difficult to resolve between artisanal and industrial work, creativity and methodicalness.
- Subjects
HOUELLEBECQ, Michel, 1958-; PROFESSIONALISM; ART industry; PROFESSIONALIZATION; DIALECTIC; NARRATORS; AESTHETICS; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
BETWEEN, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 26, p19
- ISSN
2039-6597
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.13125/2039-6597/5724