The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts

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

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.

"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

"[T]his is truly not a book for the faint of heart. Given the still ill-defined - and even controversial - moment in this embryonic field, this book serves as somewhat of a manifesto for the needfulness of the discipline... It certainly deserves a place on the shelf of any art library." - Margaretta S. Frederick, Art Libraries Journal