Practice as Research : Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

Estelle Barrett

ISBN 10: 1845114329 / ISBN 13: 9781845114329

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Apr 2007, 2007

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Neuware - Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and individual chapters provide concrete examples of studio-based research in art, film and video, creative writing and dance. Comprehensive in its approach, the volume draws on thinkers including Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its examination of the relationship between practice and theory demonstrating how practice can operate as a valid alternative mode of enquiry to traditional scholarship.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practice as Research : Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Apr 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845114329
• ISBN 13: 9781845114329
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 166H x 25D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 166 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 544 grams

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Synopsis

Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and individual chapters provide concrete examples of studio-based research in art, film and video, creative writing and dance. Comprehensive in its approach, the volume draws on thinkers including Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its examination of the relationship between practice and theory demonstrating how practice can operate as a valid alternative mode of enquiry to traditional scholarship.

About the Author

Estelle Barrett is Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia.

Barbara Bolt is Senior Lecturer in Visual Media, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a practising artist and the author of Art Beyond Representation (I.B.Tauris).