Pierre-Michel Menger
Pierre-Michel Menger (* 1953 in Paris ) is a French sociologist and since January 2014 a professor of sociology creative work at the College de France and at the elite university Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
Life
He was previously Research Director at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the University of Paris V and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Paris. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 .
His work and research focus are the sociology of art , the art markets and the evaluation systems for art as well as the work and employment in the field of arts and culture.
In his text “Art and Bread” (in the original Métamorphoses du capitalisme ) he advocates the thesis that the artist has become the prototype and ideal of the contemporary, flexible and creative worker.
Fonts (selection)
- Economics of the arts: selected essays (with Victor Ginsburgh). Elsevier, Amsterdam / New York 1996.
- Artistic Labor Markets and Careers . In: Annual Review of Sociology . 25th year 1999, p. 541-574 .
- Profession artiste: Extension of the domain of the creation . edition textuel 2005 - ISBN 2-84597-161-3 .
- Art and bread. The metamorphoses of the worker . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2006 - ISBN 978-3-89669-664-9 .
- The Economics of Creativity. Art and Achievement under Uncertainty . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2014 - ISBN 978-0674724563 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pierre-Michel Menger at the College de France
- ↑ Kultur-macht-europa.de accessed on February 2, 2012
- ↑ Directory of members: Pierre-Michel Menger. Academia Europaea, accessed September 9, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menger, Pierre-Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |