The making of ways of being an artist : the ethopoetics of J.O. Mallander's conceptual art

This thesis examines contemporary artistic practices, gauging the role played by Conceptual art in shaping artist subjectivity and manifesting it in discourse. This process is understood as the relationship between three parameters: the social context of contemporary art, creativity specific to an artist's practice, and the relationship an artist has to themselves. The theoretical framework is tailored to analyse how artists produce subjectivities and how their practices generate specific f