What Is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive, Encounter

'Based on the 2007 Clark Conference, What Is Research in the Visual Arts? explores fundamental questions, both philosophical and practical, for those working with visual art. What is research, why and how do we do it, and what place does it have in art making and the understanding of art today? Thirteen authors consider the pleasures, passions, and dangers of research and its attendant obsessions and encounters with incoherence, chaos, and wonder. How does the process of inquiry engender meaning? In what complex ways is research bound up with writing, teaching, curating, and making? Why are we obsessed with the idea of research?' (Back cover)

This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference held 27 and 28 April 2007 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Preface by Michael Ann Holly. With biographies of contributors.

Alternative title

Clark Studies in the Visual Arts

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, United States)

editor

Michael Ann HOLLY,

Marquard SMITH

Location code

REF.CLS2

Language

English

Keywords

conference

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

248

ISBN / ISSN

9780300134131

No of copies

Content type

anthology,

conference proceedings

Chapter headings

Introduction: Why 'What Is Research in the Visual Arts?: Obsession, Archive, Encounter'? - Marquard SMITH

Part One: Encounters and Obsessions

What Is Research in Art History, Anyway? - Michael Ann HOLLY

Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History - Alexander NEMEROV

Dead Stock: The Researcher as Collector of Failed Goods - Celeste OLALQUIAGA

The Work of Research: Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through - Joanne MORRA

Archival Obsessions and Obsessive Archives - Ernst VAN ALPHEN

Our Monstrous Double: The Dream of Research in 'Outsider Art History' - Marc GOTLIEB

Part Two: The World and the Archive

Factory of Facts: Research as Obsession with the Scent of History - Serge GUILBAUT

The Artwork, The Archive, and the Living Moment - Alex POTTS

Cut the Bean: Curiosity and Research in the Pages of Cabinet Magazine - Zina NAJAFI

The Scholar and the Fan - Reva WOLF

The Abu Ghraib Archive - W. J. T. MITCHELL

The World Archive and Universal Research - Akira Mizuta LIPPIT

Research Practice: New Words on Cold Cases - Mieke BAL

What Is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive, Encounter

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