Art, Research, Philosophy
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff Metropolitan University / Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- AD018
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138789784
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- We propose that this output is double-weighted because it is a monograph. It contains eight chapters that are effectively articles. They address different aspects of the way philosophy can help to clarify and advance the field of artistic research. Of the eight chapters, one – ‘Chapter 4. Writing as rupture and relation’ – can be discounted as it is largely made up of material that was written and published in the 2000s, as explained on the ‘Acknowledgments’ page (p. ix). However, this still leaves seven chapters, as well as an introduction and a conclusion, for appraisal.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Art, Research, Philosophy is the first book-length study to show how ideas in philosophy can be applied to artistic research to answer its questions and to make proposals for its future. Clive Cazeaux argues that artistic research is an exciting development in the historical debate between aesthetics and the theory of knowledge.
Research process
The methods used in the book are philosophical analysis of texts, arguments and concepts, and aesthetic judgment (or close-looking) in relation to works of art to introduce new concepts for analysis. The book offers a concise survey of the history of the theory of knowledge and calls attention to the theories that try to wedge art and knowledge apart. In response, Cazeaux shows how Kant’s philosophy provides a more positive epistemological framework for artistic research, one which locates the so-called immediacies of art and experience within the structures that create knowledge.
Research insights
The Kantian framework means art and experience can now be understood as forces that act upon and transform the concepts through which the world is organized and understood. The power of art to act on these structures is illustrated through a series of studies that look closely at a number of contemporary artworks. The value of artistic research, the book concludes, is that it is a practice which not only generates new forms and interpretations but which also lets us see how these new forms and interpretations lead to new or revised conceptual understanding.
Dissemination
The book was published in print and digital forms by Routledge in September 2017. The book was made ‘open access’ via Routledge’s website in June 2020.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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