Art, Research, Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781138789777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str.

Clive Cazeaux

Opis

Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergence in the last two decades 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 and writing? Doesn t description always miss the particularity of the artwork? Clive Cazeaux argues that artistic research is an exciting development in the historical debate between aesthetics and the theory of knowledge. It is the first book-length study to show how ideas in philosophy can be applied to artistic research to answer its questions and to make proposals for its future. The book draws upon Kant, phenomenology and critical theory to show how the immediacies of art and experience are enmeshed in the structures that create knowledge. The power of art to act on these structures is illustrated through a series of studies that look closely at a number of contemporary artworks. This book will be ideal for students studying for a postgraduate qualification in visual and creative arts, aesthetics or art theory, as well as academics supervising these subjects. "

O autorze

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.