Contemporary Art or Contemporary Arts? Remarks on ”Le paradigme de l’art contemporain” by Nathalie Heinich

This paper provides several polemic comments regarding the concept of the “paradigm of contemporary art” presented by Nathalie Heinich in her book entitled Le paradigme de l’art contemporain. Structure d’une revolution artistique. The paper questions the accuracy of the analogy between changes within artworld that took place in the 20th century and the structure of scientific revolutions discussed by Thomas Kuhn. The author also points to the incompleteness of the proposal of the French sociologist, who neglects artistic activities that occur outside galleries and institutional art circles.   REFERENCES Bishop Claire (2013) Radical Museology or, What’s ‘Contemporary’ in Museums of Contemporary Art?, London: Koenig Books. Brown Richard H. (1977) A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences, the Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bryan-Wilson Julia (2012) Occupational Realism, “TDR: The Drama Review”, vol. 56, Issue 4, Winter, p. 32-48. Cauwet Laurent (2017) La domestication de l’art, Paris: La Fabrique editions. Clignet Remi (1985) The Structure of Artistic Revolutions, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Marissal Laurent (2006) Pinxit, Rennes: Incertain Sens. Heinich Nathalie (2014) Le paradigme de l’art contemporain. Structure d’une revolution artistique, Paris : Editions Gallimard. Martin Benedicte (2005) Evaluation de la qualite sur le marche de l’art contemporain. Le cas des jeunes artistes en voie d’insertion, rozprawa doktorska pod kierunkiem Francois Eymarda-Dyvernaya, Nanterre : Universystet Paris-X. Wright Stephen (2014) Toward a Lexicon of Usership, Eindhoven: Museum of Arte Util Van Abbemuseum.