Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook
- Submitting institution
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University of Derby
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 786075-5
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Ltd
- ISBN
- 9781409468677
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The volume analyses the sketchbook within contemporary practices and modes of thinking in artistic, design–orientated and architectural domains. The thematic orientations cover diverse topics across a variety of methodological approaches in research in art theory, architectural humanities, philosophical discourse, and pedagogical and curatorial practices. The research analyses and explores the sketchbook as a methodology to inform the developmental needs of creative practice. The investigation is undertaken against the background of developments in information processing and communication technologies, whilst accounting for their impact on the theoretical and practical conceptions of traditional forms of drawing, and graphical modes of representing artistic, architectural and design-based ideas. The enquiry considers the contexts in which sketchbook drawing becomes intimately interwoven with textual commentary, or the registering of thought through the co-entanglement of images with texts, of icons with words. It analyses the role of the sketchbook as creative archival system for ideas development, discussion and progression within the practice of art, design and architecture, where it acts as a necessary accompaniment to the methods and processes in which more formal works are realized.
The edited volume includes expanded versions of presentations given at an international colloquium (with an accompanying exhibition) at The Collection (Lincoln, UK). As instigator and key researcher in inception and development, Bartram is a substantial contributor to the edited volume. This includes choices for inclusion, determining the underpinning aims of investigation, selection, editorial choices and steer toward publication. Additional texts were invited to give the volume breadth and to expand the research within art specifically, which Bartram led as representative of (and as an artistic researcher within) this discipline. As co-editor for the volume, Bartram co-wrote the introduction and contributed a chapter specifically written to fill a gap in contemporary approaches in art.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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