Fine Art: Starting out

"The handbook is heavy on methods chapters in different genres. There are chapters on actual methods that include methodological instruction and examples. There is also ample attention given to practical issues including evaluation, writing, ethics and publishing. With respect to writing style, contributors have made their chapters reader-friendly by limiting their use of jargon, providing methodological instruction when appropriate, and offering robust research examples from their own work and/or others." -- Provided by publisher.

Art, Research and Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as contribution to knwoledge.

Exhibition publication
When the Moon Waxes Red, Khan interrogates her personal family history of poverty, alcoholism and emotional and physical abuse as they intersect with Indian Ocean migration, colonialism, apartheid and post-apartheid. It links the struggles of a particular group and historical episode(s) to larger struggles of women nationally and transnationally.

Desmond Bell looks at contemporary art and design practice, arguing that research activity is now a vital part of the creative dynamic.

"Centres on a virtual gallery of art made in the region from the 1940's to the 2000s. Work featured is contextualized within its historical background from the Pre-Columbian times to the present day, through narrative text and time line."--Cover.

Mass-produced images have long been produced and used in India by religious and nationalist movements – the emergence of Indian-run chromolithograph presses in the late 1870s initiated a vast outpouring that have come to dominate many of India’s public and domestic spaces.

"At one level or another, all the work in the collection seeks to find ways to understand and articulate our multiple identities and senses of place?

The Siyazama Project enables rural traditional craftswomen from KwaZulu-Natal to express their concerns about AIDS and all its complexities through their beautiful beaded cloth dolls and beadwork.

"Engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production, the essays in this volume are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture