last updated 7 Dec 2001
Quotes
Bibliography
Some
quotes about art-practice-based research:
- "...
In talking about how an artist works, I happened to
use the word experiment. A colleague from a humanities
background launched a vocal attack on that - at which
a physicist burst out: "You"ve just disallowed the
entire practice of research in physics!"
(Tim Jones,
Wimbledon School of Art, quoted in Watts, 1998, p.
iv)
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- "All that is revealed
in the practice is concealed in the research"
(Macleod, 1999b,
quoting student p.38)
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- "Genuinely new
knowledge is inevitably
threatening"
(Macleod, 1999b, p.5)
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- ""... simultaneously
to meet the criteria for a research degree and to have
the creative approval of their peers. ... a "double
load" ..." (Hockey,
1999, p.43)
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- "Research is a
practice, writing is practice, doing science is
practice, doing design is practice, making art is a
practice." (Frayling,
1993, p.4)
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- "On the other hand,
engaging art-making as research does place demands
upon it that are likely to affect it as a process."
(Hanrahan, 1998,
p.31)
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- "We are not
attempting to impose "alien" academic research
traditions precisely because those traditions have
been under serious threat in the universities for
years and, in some areas, is now in
retreat." (Seago,
1995, p.4)
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- "Curiously, the "pure
idea" of art, the relation of form to content in what
is a process bound discipline, does not appear to be
in hot debate. Until it is, artists will be in danger
of producing poor art as research."
(Macleod, 1998,
p.35)
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- "She soon discovered
the limitations in this structuralist approach (i.e.
the data was selected, and could only deal with
stable, unchanging contexts- what structuralists
describe as "synchronic"), realising that practice-led
research requires "diachronic" data - which has
evolved through time, is unstable and changing."
(Gray and Pirie,
1995, p.8. Concerning Anne Douglas" doctorate on
sculpture)
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- "... there is rather
a whole "rigour of softness" (our phrase), which
extends from the study of an individual case right
through to the development of a general theory which
has a different logic from the rigour of discovery
through experimentation or survey, and which is more
suitable for the study of whole human situations in
their natural contexts." (Reason
and Rowan, 1981, p.189)
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- A Ph.D. student
interviewed by Macleod describes "... her art practice
as "robust" and her writing as "fragile"."
(Macleod, 1998,
p.33)
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Bibliography
(selected):
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- This is a short
bibliography concerning some current issues for
art-practice-led research, and including references
for the quotes above. There are additional
bibliographies attached to each research training
document, whether GRS
or School
of Arts, Design and Media
specific. See
also links
page.
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- These
periodicals feature articles concerning
art-practice-led research in most issues (all are
taken by Ashburne Library):
- Co-design
(oriented more to design than fine art)
Drawing Fire
Point
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- Austin, F. (1999).
"Practice-based research", Artists' Newsletter,
April. 5.
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- Davey, J. R. N.
(1999). "Writing and the in-between", Point,
no. 7 Spr/Summer. 12-18
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- Douglas, A. (1992).
Structure and improvisation: The making aspect of
sculpture. Ph.D. thesis, University of
Sunderland.
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- Frayling, C. (1993).
Research in art and design, Royal College of
Art Research Papers series vol. 1 no. 1. London: Royal
College of Art.
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- Gilbert, J. (1998).
Legitimising sketchbooks as a research tool in an
academic setting, Journal of Art and Design
Education, vol. 17 no. 3. 255-266.
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- Gray, C., and Malins,
J. (1999). "The digital thesis: Recent developments in
practice-based PhD research in art and design",
Digital Creativity, vol. 10 no. 1.
18-28.
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- Gray, C. and Pirie,
I. (1995). " 'Artistic' research procedure: Research
at the edge of chaos?", Proceedings of Design
Interfaces Conference vol. 3, The European Academy
of Design. Salford: University of Salford.
Available
from URL:
<http://www.rgu.ac.uk/criad/cgpapers/ead/ead.htm>
[Accessed 2000 January 10].
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- Gray, C., Douglas,
A., Leake, I., & Malins, J. (1995). Developing
a research procedures programme for artists and
designers. Aberdeen: Gray's School of Art, Robert
Gordon University. Available
from URL:
<http://www.rgu.ac.uk/criad/cgpapers/drpp/drpp.htm>
[Accessed 2000 January 10].
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- Gray, C. (ed.) (1996)
RADical: International research conference for art
and design conference proceedings
[CD-ROM]. Aberdeen: Gray's School of Art,
Robert Gordon University.
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- Hanrahan, S. (1998).
"The possibility of dialogue: The relationship between
'words' and 'art-making' in fine art research",
Drawing Fire, vol. 2 no. 2 Winter.
29-31.
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- Hockey, J. (1999).
"Writing and making: Problems encountered by
practice-based research degree students."
Point, no. 7, Spring/Summer. 38-43.
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- Hockey, J. and J.
Allen-Collinson (2000). "The supervision of
practice-based research degrees in art and design."
Journal of Art and Design Education, vol. 19
no. 3. 345-355.
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- Lowe, B. (2000)
"Something for nothing?" Variant, vol. 2 no. 9.
Available
from URL:
<http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~variant/pdfs/issue9/Lowe.pdf>.
[Accessed 2000 January 10]. 25-26.
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- Macleod, K. (undated,
c.2000) What would falsify an art practice?
Broadside series no. 5. Birmingham: University of
Central England.
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- Macleod, K. (1999a).
"The relationship of making to writing" Point,
no. 7, Spring/Summer. 4-7.
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- Macleod, K. (1999b).
"New knowledge/art knowledge: Postgraduate research in
fine art", Drawing Fire, vol. 2 no. 3.
35-40.
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- Macleod, K. (1998).
"Research in fine art: Theory, judgement and
discourse", Drawing Fire, vol. 2 no. 2 Winter.
33-37.
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- Matrix 1,
Matrix 2, and Matrix 3D (1988, 1993 and
1995) conference reports, various eds. London:
Dali/Central St Martins College of Art and
Design.
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- Newbury, D. (ed.)
(1996). Research Guides. Birmingham: The
Research Training Initiative, University of Central
England.
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- Payne, Antonia (ed.)
(2000). Research and the Artist: Considering the
Role of the Art School. Oxford: Ruskin School of
Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford.
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- Reason, P. and Rowan,
J. (eds.) (1981). Human inquiry: A sourcebook of
new paradigm research. Chicester: John Wiley and
Sons Ltd.
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- Schön, D.
(1981). The reflective practitioner. New York:
Jossey-Bass.
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- Seago, A. (1995).
Research methods for M.Phil. and Ph.D. students in
art and design: Contrasts and conflicts, Royal
College of Art Research Papers series, vol. 1 no. 3.
London: Royal College of Art.
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- UK Council for
Graduate Education, (1997). Practice-based
doctorates in the creative and performing arts and
design. Coventry: UK Council for Graduate
Education.
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- UK Council for
Graduate Education, (1997). Practice-based
doctorates in the creative and performing arts and
design workshop. Coventry: UK Council for Graduate
Education.
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- Watts, C. (1998).
"The art of knowedge", The Guardian (On Course
section), Sat 12th Sep. iv-v.
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- Wood, J. (2000) "The
culture of academic rigour: Does design research
really need it?"' The Design Journal, vol. 3
vo. 1. 44-49.
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