Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists: Challenges, Practices, and Complexities 1st ed. Edition Christopher Wiley

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• ISBN 10: 3030392333
• ISBN 13: 9783030392338
• Author: Christopher Wiley; Ian Pace

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.

Table of contents:

Part I. General Introduction
1. Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists
Part II. Critical Perspectives
2. The Artist Is Present: Scandal and the Academic Study of the Living Artist
3. From Vocational Calling to Career Construction: Late-Career Authors and Critical Self-reflection
4. The Purpose of the Written Element in Composition PhDs
5. Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Western Art Music: Questions of Context, Realism, Evidence, Description and Analysis
6. When Ethnography Becomes Hagiography: Uncritical Musical Perspectives
Part III. Case Studies Across the Arts
7. Writing Catastrophe: Howard Barker’s Theatre
8. Writing the Contemporary Ballerina: Sylvie Guillem, Misty Copeland and Lessons in Biography
9. Amend the Arena: On Adrian Piper’s Work
10. Writing About Contemporary Composers: Memory and Irony in The Apollonian Clockwork
11. Artfrom: Researching the Canon Through Publications of Art and Design
Part IV. Art Considered on Its Own Terms
12. Occlusionary Tactics
13. Abstracts
14. MusicArt: Creating Dialogues Across the Arts
Back Matter

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