The Role of the Artist in Contemporary Art 12+

📗 In this text, Chad Dawkins examines the structure andarmatures which define the contours of the contemporaryart world, it's methodologies and practices, and examinesthe assumptions and societal rationale behind what itmeans to perform the role of 'Artist' publicly. Relying onhistory, self-comparison, and confusion, contemporaryartists find themselves looking farther out into anever expanding field of art. Seeking to redefine theirrole, artists work via recontextualization to produceevidence of their existence. What are the implicationshistorically, professionally, and aesthetically of the trend torecontextualize every creative possibility?