RECONHECIMENTO DO TRABALHO ARTÍSTICO NA SOCIEDADE DE CONSUMO.

We propose to reflect, in this study, possible conections between cultural consumption and the recognition of the artistic work. For this purpose, we use the theoretical contribution of the Psychodynamics of Work and Baudrillard's (2003) discussion on "The Consumer Society". We used, as an empirical example, the case of an artist who works in Florianópolis, we observed her daily work and conducted four in-depth interviews with her. We argue that artistic work does not pass unscathed to the process of social homogenization, in which art is embedded in the same logic of other objects and is appropriate as a consumer good. The work and the artistic keep, however, specific characteristics that its insertion in the consumer society produces harmful consequences to the artist as a worker. We warn that non-recognition is harmful to the subjectivity of the worker and the constitution of his identity, and significantly influences the experience of suffering at work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]