What is research in the visual arts?
Subtitle: obsession, archive, encounter
By: edited by Michael Ann Holly and Marquard Smith.
Contributors: Holly, Michael Ann.; Smith, Marquard.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Series: Clark studies in the visual arts
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Distributed by Yale University Press; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Museum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780931102806; 9780300134131
Subjects: Art -- Research -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Based on the 2007 Clark Conference, What Is Research in the Visual Arts? explores fundamental questions, both philosophical and practical, for those working with visual art. What is research, why and how do we do it, and what place does it have in art making and the understanding of art today? Thirteen authors consider the pleasures, passions, and dangers of research and its attendant obsessions and encounters with incoherence, chaos, and wonder. How does the process of inquiry engender meaning? In what complex ways is research bound up with writing, teaching, curating, and making? Why are we obsessed with the idea of research?"--Jacket.
Notes: "This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference ... held 27 and 28 April 2007 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts."