Desmond Bell

Research in the Creative and Media Arts

Challenging Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

In Research in the Creative and Media Arts, Desmond Bell looks at contemporary art and design practice, arguing that research activity is now a vital part of the creative dynamic. Today, creative arts and media students are expected to develop a range of research competencies and critical capacities in their creative project work. This book plots the basis for a research culture in the creative and media arts. It provides an illuminating genealogy of artistic research, revealing the intimate connections between art and science over the centuries and identifying some of the founding figures of practice-based artistic research. Bell explores the research that artists undertake through a number of case studies, talking to a range of contemporary artists and media makers about their work and the role research plays in this. He also traces the dialogues between art practice and a range of other humanity disciplines, such as history, anthropology and critical theory. His analysis reveals how contemporary art practice is now so locked into a set of interlocutions about process and purpose that it increasingly resembles a research practice in and of itself. Research in the Creative and Media Arts is a comprehensive overview of the relationship between research and practice that is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of art and design, art history and visual culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781138589063
• ISBN-10: 1138589063
• Artikelnr.: 55191635

Autorenporträt

Desmond Bell is a research fellow at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, where he was previously Head of Research. He has held chairs in film, photography and media studies at a number of UK universities, combining his academic work with a career as an award-winning documentary film-maker.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Critical Parameters
Chapter 1. Creative arts and media research: key terms and perspectives
1. Introduction
2. Defining the key terms
3. The distinguishing characteristics of artistic research
4. The main types of artistic research
5. Modelling artistic research
Chapter 2. The research that artists actually do
1. Introduction
2. Re-evaluating "background" research
3. Artist reflections and critical dialogues as research sources
4. The artist interview as a research tool
5. Case study: found footage film-making
Chapter 3. A research turn in the visual arts?
6. Introduction
7. The dynamics of contemporary art practice
8. Conceptualism
9. Curational strategies
10. Relational aesthetics
11. Performativity
12. The practice turn in contemporary theory
13. Conclusion
Chapter 4. The spectre of science
14. Introduction
15. The methodological drive in artistic research
16. Understanding the logic of scientific discovery
17. The specificity of artistic research
18. Against method (and for art)
19. Artists and science
20. Case studies of art-science collaboration
21. Conclusion
Part II. Antecedents and Foundations
Chapter 5. The historical antecedents of artistic research: the Renaissance
22. Introduction
23. Renaissance vision
24. Leonardo, science and invention
25. Assessing the Renaissance contribution to the advancement of artistic
research
Chapter 6. A science of art?: theory and practice in the modernist
avant-garde
26. Introduction
27. A science of art?
28. Founding fathers (and mothers) of twentieth century artistic research
29. Theory and practice in the work of Wassily Kandinsky
30. Art as expression
31. Founding texts and axioms of modernist artistic research
32. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Utopian visions and material realities: artistic research and
the revolution
33. Introduction
34. Artistic research for a revolutionary moment
35. The auspices of non-objective art: from the analysis of style to language
and system
36. Malevich as pedagogue: the UNOVIS experiment
37. The Constructivist challenge
38. From Suprematist painting to Constructivist imaging
39. The eclipse of the avant-garde
40. Conclusion
Part III: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Chapter 8. Art and the sciences of man: reframing history
1. Introduction
2. Method, craft and science in history
3. Material memory: exploring a family archive (case study)
4. The artwork as historiographical intervention: interpreting the
Spanish Civil War
5. Imaging the past: The Enigma of Frank Ryan (case study)
6. Contemporary art and the engagement with history: Hito Steyerl's Der
Bau and Free Fall
7. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Artistic research and the human sciences: staging anthropology
1. Introduction
2. An ethnographic turn in the visual arts?
3. The tarnished legacy of anthropology
4. Lens-based ethnography: documenting Dublin's docklands (case study)
5. Susan Hiller: a coming to terms with anthropological method
6. Trinh T Minh-ha: speaking nearby
7. The auto-ethnographic impulse in artistic research
Chapter 10. Artistic research and critical theory
1. Introduction
2. Theory in the creative arts and media
3. Paradigms of the theory-practice relation
4. Exemplars of contemporary creative arts practice in the critical
tradition
5. Conclusion: artistic research and critical theory