L'évolution de la formation des artistes québécois au xxe siècle

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Title
L'évolution de la formation des artistes québécois au xxe siècle
Abstract
The authors note that professional training of artists, painters, dancers, musicians, actors, Anglophones and Francophones, underwent profound transformations in the twentieth century. They explain that the most notable change was the generalized shift from the traditional training modes of self-teaching and apprenticeship to the contemporary mode characterized by training within specialized diploma-granting institutions. They expalin that this transformation took place in the broader framework of the institutionalization of artistic practices, which has been manifested in particular by the creation of forums of creation and of dissemination. The appearance of specialized institutions for the training of artists did not precede, but rather followed the appearance of forums of creation and of dissemination. Based on information gathered from a sample of 1,471 artists belonging to eleven different professional associations, they show that the initial effect of this sequence was to reduce artistic training. The authors argue that there was a shift from a period in which artists, who were not very numerous, began their career after having received artistic training, to a period when demand was increasing more rapidly than the supply of training, and artists were beginning their careers without necessarily having received training. The average level of training that existed at the beginning of the century was not again reached until after the creation of institutions, including programs within McGill and Concordia universities, dedicated to the professional training of artists.
Publication
Recherches sociographiques
Volume
Vol. 42
Issue
no. 3
Pages
543-584
Date
2001
Language
fr
URL
Citation
Laplante, Benoît, and Guy Bellevance. “L’évolution de la formation des artistes québécois au xxe siècle.” Recherches sociographiques Vol. 42, no. 3 (2001): 543–584. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/rs/2001-v42-n3-rs1612/057475ar.pdf.
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