Product Description

Art Practice as Research presents a compelling argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research.

This text explores themes, practices and contexts of artistic inquiry and positions them within the discourse of research. Graeme Sullivan argues that legitimate research goals can be achieved by choosing different methods than those offered by the social sciences. The common denominator in both approaches is the attention given to rigor and systematic inquiry. Artists emphasize the role of the imaginative intellect in creating, criticizing, and constructing knowledge that is not only new but also has the capacity to transform human understanding. (20050601)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106923 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
“Sullivan challenges our assumptions about what constitutes research practices and in doing so presents a ground-breaking analysis for visual arts practice as research. This compelling image-text book opens the possibilities for the construction of new forms of knowledge in our increasingly visual world.” (Dipti Desai 20070320)

“Sullivan provides a timely and excellent introduction to the emerging field of visual cognition and educational research.” (Pradeep Dhillon 20070320)

“In this rich and layered reflection on visual arts practice as research, Graeme Sullivan launches a passionate and convincing case that rewrites the definitions of ‘art’ and ‘research’ as it unapologetically claims for the visual arts the respect and admiration of the academy.” (Jessica Hoffman Davis 20070320)

“Art Practice as Research is long overdue. Graeme Sullivan eloquently crafts a methodology text and articulates for contemporary visual artist-researchers how arts practices are, in fact, rich forms of research inquiry.” (Rita L. Irwin )

“Sullivan’s text is an important addition to the literature associated with research, critical inquiry, and arts education. I wish that such a text would have been available at the time that I was working on my dissertation. I will recommend it to my graduate students and colleagues.” (Doug Blandy )

"Sullivan has writen a complex, closely reasoned, and very detailed dargument about a topic that, at first glance, seems superfluous to anyone who has ever had the good fortune to observe serious artists seriously engaged in making their art...  Sullivan has created an excellent, even poetic, excercise in his own endeavor to share his understandings of the creative process." (W.S. Johnson Choice Magazine )

"I can recommend Sullivan's book for those who want a thorough overview of the field of inquiry in the visual arts. It is well structured and Sullivan presents many examples to illustrate his arguments." (Folkert Haanstra )

"Art Practice As Research is encyclopedic in depth and scope of material supporting the author's vital thesis, and the vision of studio art as fully acknowledged academic research, may be elusive as the dragonfly." (Patricia M. Hancock )

"The book eloquently explains research practices found in the art studio and argues that visual art research is grounded in the practices that come from art itself. This profound and visionary book . . . is an essential text for every research student of art and art education in art schools and schools of education." (Susan Paterson )

About the Author

Graeme Sullivan is an associate professor of Art Education, Department of Arts and Humanities, at Teachers College, Columbia University.  He earned both his Ph.D. and his M.A. in Art Education from Ohio State University.  Sullivan is a former senior lecturer in Art Education, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia.  Since the early 1990s his research has involved an ongoing investigation of critical-reflective thinking processes and research practices in visual arts.  In 1998, he produced a CD-ROM, Critical Influence, that documented the influences and contexts surrounding the art practice of two contemporary artists as they prepared for an exhibition.  He is the author of Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters as well as numerous articles which focus on the visual research practices in art and education.  In 1990, he was awarded the Manual Barkan Memorial Award for his scholarly writing by the National Art Education Association (NAEA).  Sullivan is currently the Senior Editor for Studies in Art Education, the research journal of the NAEA.  He is listed in Who's Who in America (2004).