Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts

Michael Biggs is Professor of Aesthetics and former Associate Dean Research at the University of Hertfordshire, UK and Visiting Professor in Arts-based Research in Architecture at the University of Lund, Sweden. He coordinates a network of excellence in the field, and has published widely on research theory in the creative and performing arts.Henrik Karlsson is Assistant Professor in musicology, former research secretary at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and consultant to Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. He headed the assessment of the Swedish Research Council’s grants to artistic research (Context-Quality-Continuity, 2007) and has edited a great number of anthologies in music and cultural sciences.

• Part I: Foundations Chapter 1: University Politics and Practice-based Research Chapter 2: Pleading for Plurality: artistic and other kinds of research Chapter 3: The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research Chapter 4: Some Notes on Mode 1 and Mode 2: adversaries or dialogue partners? Chapter 5: Communities, Values, Conventions and Actions Chapter 6: Artistic Cognition and Creativity Chapter 7: The Role of the Artefact and Frameworks for Practice-based Research Chapter 8: Embodied Knowing Through Art Part II: Voices Chapter 9: Rhetoric: Writing, Reading and Producing the Visual Chapter 10: Research and the Self Chapter 11: Addressing the ‘Ancient Quarrel’: creative writing as research Chapter 12: The Virtual and the Physical: a phenomenological approach to performance research Chapter 13: Navigating in Heterogeneity: architectural thinking and art based research Chapter 14: Insight and Rigour: a Freudo-Lacanian approach Chapter 15: Transformational Practice: on the place of material novelty in artistic change Chapter 16: Time and Interaction: research through non-visual arts and media Chapter 17: Thinking About Art after the Media: research as practised culture of experiment Part III: Contexts Chapter 18: Characteristics of Visual and Performing Arts Chapter 19: Differential Iconography Chapter 20: Writing and the PhD in Fine Art Chapter 21: Research Training in the Creative Arts and Design Chapter 22: No Copyright and No Cultural Conglomerates: new opportunities for artists Chapter 23: Evaluating Quality in Artistic Research

'In view of the quality of the chapters as well as the overall diversity and content of the book, it is difficult to find some weak spots.' – Johan Verbeke, vice-dean FAK'This book is a wonderful volume of high quality contributions which make this obligatory reading for all researchers and PhD supervisors active in the domain of artistic research and research through design(ing). The book also nicely shows that artistic research merits now its own place in academia and should be given the necessary funds to develop its own discourse and methods.' – Johan Verbeke, vice-dean FAK'The practice-led PhD, which began in the U.K., is now ubiquitous in several parts of the world. As the doctorate becomes more settled in university life, it becomes increasingly important to reach a balanced understanding of its basic concepts, methods, and outcomes. What is artistic research? How does art create new knowledge? How can a PhD-level art exhibition be assessed for quality? This book is the first comprehensive look at concepts such as research, knowledge, creativity, the visual, experiment, quality, and assessment, as they are used in practice-based programmes influenced by the U.K. and E.U. models of higher education. Now that art is being taught in universities at the doctoral level, it may spur a fundamental rethinking of the university’s basic concepts of professionalism, community, and purpose. For that reason this book is also an irreplaceable resource for those interested in the coherence and idea of the university as a whole.' – James Elkins, The Art Institute of Chicago