Research in the creative and media arts : challenging practice /: challenging practice. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Desmond Bell.
• Authors: Bell, Desmond
• Contents: Part I. Critical Parameters Chapter 1. Creative arts and media research: key terms and perspectives Introduction Defining the key terms The distinguishing characteristics of artistic research The main types of artistic research Modelling artistic research Chapter 2. The research that artists actually do Introduction Re-evaluating "background" research Artist reflections and critical dialogues as research sources The artist interview as a research tool Case study: found footage film-making Chapter 3. A research turn in the visual arts? Introduction The dynamics of contemporary art practice Conceptualism Curational strategies Relational aesthetics Performativity The practice turn in contemporary theory Conclusion Chapter 4. The spectre of science Introduction The methodological drive in artistic research Understanding the logic of scientific discovery The specificity of artistic research Against method (and for art) Artists and science Case studies of art-science collaboration Conclusion Part II. Antecedents and Foundations Chapter 5. The historical antecedents of artistic research: the Renaissance Introduction Renaissance vision Leonardo, science and invention Assessing the Renaissance contribution to the advancement of artistic research Chapter 6. A science of art?: theory and practice in the modernist avant-garde Introduction A science of art? Founding fathers (and mothers) of twentieth century artistic research Theory and practice in the work of Wassily Kandinsky Art as expression Founding texts and axioms of modernist artistic research Conclusion Chapter 7. Utopian visions and material realities: artistic research and the revolution Introduction Artistic research for a revolutionary moment The auspices of non-objective art: from the analysis of style to language and system Malevich as pedagogue: the UNOVIS experiment The Constructivist challenge From Suprematist painting to Constructivist imaging The eclipse of the avant-garde Conclusion Part III: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Chapter 8. Art and the sciences of man : reframing history Introduction Method, craft and science in history Material memory: exploring a family archive (case study) The artwork as historiographical intervention: interpreting the Spanish Civil War Imaging the past: The Enigma of Frank Ryan (case study) Contemporary art and the engagement with history: Hito Steyerl's Der Bau and Free Fall Conclusion Chapter 9. Artistic research and the human sciences: staging anthropology Introduction An ethnographic turn in the visual arts? The tarnished legacy of anthropology Lens-based ethnography: documenting Dublin's docklands (case study) Susan Hiller: a coming to terms with anthropological method Trinh T Minh-ha: speaking nearby The auto-ethnographic impulse in artistic research Chapter 10. Artistic research and critical theory Introduction Theory in the creative arts and media Paradigms of the theory-practice relation Exemplars of contemporary creative arts practice in the critical tradition Conclusion: artistic research and critical theory
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 701.05; Art and science; Arts -- Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429959417; 9780429959424; 9780429959400; 9780429491948
• Related ISBNs: 9781138589056; 9781138589063
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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