Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research - Softcover

Daichendt, G. James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841504874 ISBN 13: 9781841504872

Publisher: Intellect Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research is part history, introduction, and discussion for artists and designers entering, graduating, and employed by the contemporary art academy in the United States. The evolution of art education in the university continues to expand in the 21st century as the variables of craft, skill, technique, theory, history and criticism shift and expand as the perspective of arts-based research is introduced into this professionalized environment. Given this context: what can M.F.A. students do to improve their understanding of writing and research without sacrificing their commitment to their studio art process?

Through a series of essays, the text argues for better writing at the M.F.A. level with the purpose of becoming better artists. By contextualizing art practice in the university and providing a foundation for future artist scholarship, it serves as an invitation to artist scholars to push their work further and develop the confidence to situate their art in the university context.

About this title

About the Author:

G. James Daichendt is associate professor and exhibitions director in the Department of Art at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California. 

Review:

“Daichendt begins with a challenging query that frames the entire structure of his subsequent arguments: ‘What does it mean to be a scholar in the visual arts?’ Universities typically confer the MFA degree on graduate students who produce exhibitions of art objects. Increasingly, though, academic pressure requires more, i.e. a piece of scholarship. This, this volume, in an  attempt to address the demands of writing and object-making, offers seven chapters and two appendices on various aspects of these topics. . . . Recommended.”
(Choice 2012-08-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1841504874
• ISBN 13: 9781841504872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 161