Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts: Inquiry in the Visual Arts - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1412974518 ISBN 13: 9781412974516

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2009

Riassunto

"F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that the test of a 'first rate intelligence' is 'the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind and still retain the ability to function.'

In this book, his magnum opus, artist and scholar Graeme Sullivan shows us a first rate mind at work. He convincingly straddles the often wide gaps between art and science, mind and body, research and practice, teaching and doing, traditional and postmodern views of education and of art, creative and critical thinking. Indeed, as his enigmatic title indicates, he is actually able to keep three usually disparate concepts—art, research, and practice—in mind at the same time. Through his skilled use of compelling sidebars and apt illustrations, Sullivan shows that he can practice what he preaches. I have been arguing with and learning from Graeme for thirty years and am grateful that he has the opportunity to share his provocative ideas and insights with a wider readership. Indeed, whether or not we agree with every contention, he heightens our own intelligences."
—Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Author of Five Minds for the Future

Substantially updated and revised, Art Practice as Research, Second Edition presents a compelling theory that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research. Sullivan argues that legitimate research goals can be achieved by choosing different methods than those offered by the social sciences.. Artists emphasize the role of the imaginative intellect in creating, criticizing, and constructing knowledge that is not only new but also has the capacity to transform human understanding.

New to this Edition

• Two new chapters explore debates surrounding art practice as research and projects undertaken within the art world, community, and institutional settings.
• New, expanded sections make reference to the work of over fifty artist-researchers from countries such as Azerbaijan, Australia, China, Italy, Mexico, Pakistan, Serbia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Documentation of a series of approaches (for instructors and students), grounded in art-making traditions unique to visual arts research, is included.

Would you like to connect with the author?
Go to Graeme Sullivan's website, or visit a blog by Graeme Sullivan welcoming contributors interested in discussing ideas and sharing information about art as a form of research.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Graeme Sullivan is an associate professor of Art Education, Department of Arts and Humanities, at Teachers College, Columbia University.  He earned both his Ph.D. and his M.A. in Art Education from Ohio State University.  Sullivan is a former senior lecturer in Art Education, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia.  Since the early 1990s his research has involved an ongoing investigation of critical-reflective thinking processes and research practices in visual arts.  In 1998, he produced a CD-ROM, Critical Influence, that documented the influences and contexts surrounding the art practice of two contemporary artists as they prepared for an exhibition.  He is the author of Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters as well as numerous articles which focus on the visual research practices in art and education.  In 1990, he was awarded the Manual Barkan Memorial Award for his scholarly writing by the National Art Education Association (NAEA).  Sullivan is currently the Senior Editor for Studies in Art Education, the research journal of the NAEA.  He is listed in Who's Who in America (2004).

Contenuti:

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Re-Viewing Visual Arts Research
Changing Demands of Visual Arts Theory and Practice
Art Practice as Research
Using Art Practice as Research
PART I: CONTEXTS FOR ART PRACTICE AS RESEARCH
1. Pigment to Pixel
The Enlightenment as a Research Project
Promise of Progress
Fractured Realities
Conclusion
2. Paradigms Lost
Method as Truth
Doubting Doctrines
The Visual Turn
Conclusion
3. Practice and Beyond
Theorizing Practice
Practice-Based and Practice-Led Research
Conclusion
PART II: THEORIZING ART PRACTICE AS RESEARCH
4. Art Practice as Research
Beyond Knowledge to Understanding
Frameworks of Art Practice as Research
Art Practice as Relational Research
Art Practice as Transformative Research
Conclusion
5. Visual Knowing
Visual Cognition
Visual Arts Knowing: A Framework
Visual Arts as Transcognitive Practice
A Case Study: Critical Influence
Conclusion
6. Artist as Theorist
Sites of Making
Reemergence of the Artist-Theorist
Critical Perspectives and Practices
Conclusion
PART III: VISUAL ARTS RESEARCH PRACTICES
7. Visualizing Practices
A Framework of Visual Arts Practices
Visual Practice: Experiences
Empirical Inquiry: Exercises
Interpretive Discourse: Encounters
Critical Process: Enactments
Conclusion
8. Visual Arts Projects
Exhibition and Performance
Visual Arts Research Projects
Solid Endings and Liquid Beginnings
Uncertain Conclusions
References
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412974518
• ISBN 13: 9781412974516
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 310