1st Edition

Art, Research, Philosophy

By Clive Cazeaux Copyright 2017
202 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raises several questions: What is art-as-research? Don’t the requirements of research amount to an imposition on the artistic process that dilutes the power of art? How can something subjective become objective? What is the relationship between art... Read more

Contents

 

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

  1. The theories that wedge art and knowledge apart

2. What is artistic research?

3. We need to talk about concepts

4. Writing as rupture and relation

5. Insights from the metaphorical nature of making

6. Does ‘art doctored’ equal ‘art neutered’?

7. Drawing with Merleau-Ponty: a study in the constellation of concepts

8. The aesthetics of research after the end of art

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Clive Cazeaux is Professor of Aesthetics at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. He is the author of Metaphor and Continental Philosophy: From Kant to Derrida (2007) and the editor of The Continental Aesthetics Reader (2011). His research interests are the philosophies of metaphor, visual thinking, artistic research and art–science practice.