L’intermédiation culturelle internationale

Abstract

This paper crosses several ongoing ethnographic studies to analyze three cases of cultural entrepreneurs who are both artists and intermediaries in international art labor markets with gatekeeper functions. By examining both the social properties and the life paths of our three individual cases, we show how they have, each in their own way, developed dispositions to cultural entrepreneurship and greatly influenced the conventions of the art worlds in which they circulate and which they contribute to transforming in terms of organization, aesthetics or even lifestyles.

Keywords

• art worlds
• intermediaries
• import-export of conventions
• life course
• international capital