Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists
Challenges, Practices, and Complexities
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Represents an original and substantial contribution to the field of writing about contemporary creative art and artists, a thriving yet largely untapped field for multi-disciplinary discourse Considers the writing of contemporary creative art and artists from a wide range of perspectives within and across the arts, nurturing dialogue between these different disciplines Responds to timely questions such as the validity of creative practice as research and its equitability with more traditional humanities-oriented output
Autor*in
Christopher Wiley
Themen in »Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists«
Contemporary Art Contemporary Artists Theory of Biography Life Writing Theatre Dance Music Creative Practice