Comicalités (Apr 2019)
La représentation muséale de l’auteur de bande dessinée : enjeux d’une dialectique entre l’artiste et l’artisan
Abstract
The representation of the comic author in the museum field inevitably leads us to the question of the symbolic representations that the museum participates in building and spreading to the public. In recent years, scientific news has proposed applying the sociological model of artification to comics. This model is part of the theoretical framework of the institutionalization of culture, it tends to distort the comic to match the symbolic perceptions of art, the work of art and the artist. This article seeks to question the limits of these symbolic perceptions by seeking to retranscribe the given image of the comic author by respecting as much as possible its constituent complexities, as well as those of the museum field itself. In doing so, the conclusion leads us to a reflection on the location of the symbolic changes theorized by the sociological model of artification: is it the author of comics who becomes an artist or is it the very notion of artist that evolves thanks to the social and cultural recognition of comics?
