Artists with PhDs : on the new doctoral degree in studio art / edited by James Ekins. - 2nd edition. - xxi, 476 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Part one: theories and histories -- Six cultures of the PhD around the world / James Elkins -- List of the PhD programs around the world / James Elkins -- Researching the PhD in art and design: what is it, and why do a PhD in art and design? / Judith Mottram -- When management speaks ... / Charles Harrison -- Thoughts on research degrees in visual arts departments / Victor Burgin -- The PhD in studio art revisited / Timothy Emlyn Jones -- The artist-philosopher and the new philosophy / George Smith -- Singing across thresholds / Iain Biggs -- The studio art doctorate in America / Timothy Emlyn Jones -- Four theses attempting to revise the terms of a debate / Mick Wilson -- Experimental aesthetics / Henk Slager -- The future of the doctorate in the arts / Hilde Van Gelder and Jan Baetens -- Fourteen reasons to mistrust the PhD / James Elkins -- Notes in response to the fourteen reasons / Judith Mottram -- Positive ideas for PhD programs / James Elkins -- Writing as practice: notes on materiality of theory for practice-based PhDs / Jonathan Dronsfield -- Between spparatus and ethos: on building a research pedagogy in the arts / Mick Wilson -- Part two: examples -- Fritha Langerman (University of Cape Town, South Africa) -- Ruth Waller (School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra MA) -- Kyoko Nakamura (Tokyo Geidai) -- Yuki Matsueda (Tokyo Geidai) -- Maria Mencia (Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London) -- Uriel Orlow (Universtiy of the Arts, London) -- Phoebe von Held (University College London, Slade School of Art) -- Marcela Quiroga Garza (Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico) -- Qi Zhen (Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing).

"This book is the second, extended edition of the first of its kind. It is a resource to help people artists, teachers, administrators, and students assess and compare programs for a new PhD in Studio Art." - Publisher's description.



9780991504756 (paperback)

2014936828


Art in universities and colleges
Art--Study and teaching

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