Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Introduction
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Critical Perspectives
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Case Studies Across the Arts
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Art Considered on Its Own Terms
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christopher Wiley is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author of many journal articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of forthcoming volumes including Writing About Contemporary Musicians (2020), Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives (2020), Women’s Suffrage in Word, Image, Music and Drama (2021), and The Routledge Companion to Autoethnography and Self-Reflexivity in Music Studies (2021).
Ian Pace is Senior Lecturer in Music at City, University of London, UK, and an internationally renowned pianist specialising in new music. He published a monograph on Michael Finnissy’s The History of Photography in Sound (2013) alongside a recording of the work, and he is co-editor of the volumes Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy (1988), Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy (2019), Writing about Contemporary Musicians (2020), and RethinkingContemporary Musicology (2020). He has also published articles in many journals, recorded 40 CDs, and given over 250 world premieres.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists
Book Subtitle: Challenges, Practices, and Complexities
Editors: Christopher Wiley, Ian Pace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39233-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39232-1Published: 28 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39235-2Published: 28 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39233-8Published: 27 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 281
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Arts, Research Skills