Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts

摘要

Graeme Sullivan's book, Art Practice As Research, is a comprehensive resource. Sullivan clearly discusses historical context, contemporary issues, and future directions of visual arts in higher education. He overviews methods of inquiry in the sciences and what cognitive science offers visual art research. Overall, Sullivan contends that art practices are as much a form of research as what currently counts as research, and beyond this, art practices as research have transformative potential to reshape traditional iterative pursuits of knowledge. The book could be useful in upper division undergraduate courses but ideal for beginning graduate studies in disciplines of visual communication.