Steve Sherwood. Seeker of the Sacred: A Late Durkheimian Theory of the Artist
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Keywords

cultural sociology
new theory of the artist
totemic principle
collective representations
collective consciousness
force
mana
immanent model of the soul
transcendent model of the soul

How to Cite

ГрибоваЕ. (2011). Steve Sherwood. Seeker of the Sacred: A Late Durkheimian Theory of the Artist. Russian Sociological Review, 9(2), 92-98. Retrieved from https://cfjournal.hse.ru/index.php/sociologica/article/view/390

Abstract

Steeve Sherwood proposes a new theory of artists and criticizes the mainstream approaches of contemporary sociology of art (for instance, those which ground on the ideas of P. Bourdieu, H. Becker, G. Pollock and G. Kubler) for avoiding theoretical discussions. He attempts to improve the situation and uses the Durkheim’s classical “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life” as a theoretical ground for the discussion of artist’s person. New theory bases on the analysis of relations between art work and artist in a similar way to the relations between totem and members of the tribe. Sherwood argues that art work embodies sacred power and artist is continuously seeking for this power and that is why Sherwood uses the Durkheimian concept of soul.
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