Abstract:People have always related art to the creation and transmission of myths.
While myth as a theme in art has been thoroughly addressed, research about
the ?mythic? nature of the artist figure is far less common. The 20th and
21st centuries brought challenges to the status of art and artists in
society, historically situated archetypes and stereotypes that we associate
with the figure of the ?artist? still survive to this day (e.g. ?genius?,
?subversive artists?, ?child prodigy?, ?eccentric?, et… Show more
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