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Researching and writing on contemporary art and artists : challenges, practices, and complexities
Title
Researching and writing on contemporary art and artists : challenges, practices, and complexities / Christopher Wiley, Ian Pace, editors.
ISBN
9783030392321
3030392325
9783030392338 (PDF ebook)
Publication
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
xvi, 281 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, music, portrait ; 22 cm
Summary
Researching and writing about contemporary art and artists present unique challenges for scholars, students, professional critics and creative practitioners alike. This collection of essays from across the arts disciplines--music, literature, dance, theatre and the visual arts--explores the challenges and complexities raised by engaging in researching and writing on living or recently deceased subjects and their output. Different sections explore critical perspectives and case studies in relation to innovative, distinctive or otherwise leading work, as well as offering innovative modes of discourse such as a visual essay and a music composition. Subjects addressed include recent scandals of Canadian literary celebrity, late-career output, the written element of music composition PhDs, and the boundaries between ethnography and hagiography, with case studies ranging from Howard Barker to Adrian Piper to Sylvie Guillem and Misty Copeland.
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Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
General Introduction
1. Writing About Contemporary Creative Art and Artists
Christopher Wiley and Ian Pace
PART I: Critical Perspectives
2. The Artist is Present: Scandal and the Academic Study of the Living Artist
Lorraine York
3. From vocational calling to career construction: Late-career authors and critical self-reflection
Hywel Dix
4. An Introduction to the Persistence of Art Writing
Bob Dickinson
5. The purpose of the written element in composition PhDs
Christopher Leedham and Martin Scheuregger
6. Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Western Art Music: Questions of Context, Realism, Evidence, Description and Analysis
Ian Pace
7. When Ethnography becomes Hagiography: Uncritical Musical Perspectives
Ian Pace
PART II: Case Studies Across the Arts
8. Writing Catastrophe: Howard Barker and the Body
Andy W. Smith
9. Writing the Ballerina: Sylvie Guillem, Misty Copeland and Lessons in Biography
Jill Brown
10. Amend the Arena: On Adrian Pipers Work
Vered Engelhard
11. Memory and Irony in The Apollonian Clockwork
Joel M. Baldwin
12. Artfrom: Researching the canon through publications of art and design
Mimi Cabell and Phoebe Stubbs
PART III: Art Considered on its Own Terms
13. Occlusionary Tactics (visual essay).-'Bob Whalley.-14. Abstracts (music composition, 2015)
Richard Birchall
15. MusicArt: Creating Dialogues Across the Arts
Annie Yim, in conversation with Christopher Wiley.
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Case studies.
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