TY  - JOUR
TI  - Steve Sherwood. Seeker of the Sacred: A Late Durkheimian Theory of the Artist
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - cultural sociology
KW  - new theory of the artist
KW  - totemic principle
KW  - collective representations
KW  - collective consciousness
KW  - force
KW  - mana
KW  - immanent model of the soul
KW  - transcendent model of the soul
AB  - 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.
AU  - Ekaterina Gribova
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2010-9-2/27371636.html
PY  - 2010
SP  - 92-98
VL  - 9