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The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts Biggs, Michael

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Taylor & Francis Ltd 06/01/2012Description: 488 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780415697941
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.72 MIC
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The arts: general issues
Summary: The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade. Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and political environment of national research funding, and in the international environment of trans-national cooperation and communication. The book is divided into three principal sections - Foundations, Voices and Contexts - each with an introduction from the editors highlighting the main issues, agreements and debates in each section. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including: the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences a consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of arts-based research by setting down a framework for addressing these, and other, topical issues. It will be essential reading for research managers and policy-makers in research councils and universities, as well as individual researchers, research supervisors and doctoral candidates.
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The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade.

Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and political environment of national research funding, and in the international environment of trans-national cooperation and communication. The book is divided into three principal sections - Foundations, Voices and Contexts - each with an introduction from the editors highlighting the main issues, agreements and debates in each section.

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including:

the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences a consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings.

This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of arts-based research by setting down a framework for addressing these, and other, topical issues. It will be essential reading for research managers and policy-makers in research councils and universities, as well as individual researchers, research supervisors and doctoral candidates.

The arts: general issues

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade. Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and political environment of national research funding, and in the international environment of trans-national cooperation and communication. The book is divided into three principal sections - Foundations, Voices and Contexts - each with an introduction from the editors highlighting the main issues, agreements and debates in each section. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including: the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences a consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of arts-based research by setting down a framework for addressing these, and other, topical issues. It will be essential reading for research managers and policy-makers in research councils and universities, as well as individual researchers, research supervisors and doctoral candidates.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Permissions
  • Preface
  • Forewords
  • Part I Foundations
  • Chapter 1 University Politics and Practice-based Research
  • Chapter 2 Pleading for Plurality: artistic and other kinds of research
  • Chapter 3 The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research
  • Chapter 4 Some Notes on Mode 1 and Mode 2: adversaries or dialogue partners?
  • Chapter 5 Communities, Values, Conventions and Actions
  • Chapter 6 Artistic Cognition and Creativity
  • Chapter 7 The Role of the Artefact and Frameworks for Practice-based Research
  • Chapter 8 Embodied Knowing Through Art
  • Part II Voices
  • Chapter 9 Rhetoric: Writing, Reading and Producing the Visual
  • Chapter 10 Research and the Self
  • Chapter 11 Addressing the âÇ Ancient Quarrel': creative writing as research
  • Chapter 12 The Virtual and the Physical: a phenomenological approach to performance research
  • Chapter 13 Navigating in Heterogeneity: architectural thinking and art based research
  • Chapter 14 Insight and Rigour: a Freudo-Lacanian approach
  • Chapter 15 Transformational Practice: on the place of material novelty in artistic change
  • Chapter 16 Time and Interaction: research through non-visual arts and media
  • Chapter 17 Thinking About Art after the Media: research as practised culture of experiment
  • Part III Contexts
  • Chapter 18 Characteristics of Visual and Performing Arts
  • Chapter 19 Differential Iconography
  • Chapter 20 Writing and the PhD in Fine Art
  • Chapter 21 Research Training in the Creative Arts and Design
  • Chapter 22 No Copyright and No Cultural Conglomerates: new opportunities for artists
  • Chapter 23 Evaluating Quality in Artistic Research
  • References
  • Index

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