• Publisher: *cf.
• 298 pages
• Author: Andrej Penzelj
• Original title: Umetnost in disciplina: Zgodovina urjenja umetnikov, tkalcev in beračev v klasični dobi

Art and Discipline analyses the emergence and development of the disciplinary dispositives in art in 17th- and 18th-century France. The book explores art in two areas. The first is in the field of discourse, where Pezelj leans on Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge: it analyses the artistic discourse based on Foucault’s concept of the rarity of statements. Usually, studies focus on how art or artistic discourse enriches the already existing discourses, while Art and Discipline attempts to determine how much each artistic discourse rarefies the field of expression. Second, in the field of discipline. In order to explain the rarefaction of art discourse, Art and Discipline analyses the genealogy of discipline in the artinstitutions. The book uses a vast range of documents like the minutes of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, artists’ correspondence and official documents of the authorities. We could say that the slightly concealed conclusion of the Art and Discipline is that the artist became contemporary simultaneously with learning how to be docile.

About the author

Andrej Penzelj

Andrej Pezelj (1978) is a sociologist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana and earned his PhD in sociology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 2016. From 2012 to 2022, he worked as a professor of Theory of Art at the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica.