Have you ever thought of writing a dissertation about a living contemporary artist? This book is intended to provide you with the necessary keys, inspiration and advice to accomplish such a project.
Dissertations and thesis on living artists are necessary tasks to be promoted in the academic field, as they incorporate and complement the work done by art critics. It is a kind of academic study which, in some cases, serves to do justice to artists with an important trajectory about whom, however, an in-depth monographic study has not been carried out yet.
The contents of this book come from the author's personal experience, drawn from the process of preparing and writing his own thesis about a painter who lives and works nowadays. The book has been prompted by the peculiarities and special factors that define the realization of an academic study on a living artist, quite different to those factors linked to other kind of art history dissertations about artists who have already passed away.
Undertaking such a project is especially exciting as the dialogue with the artist provides a fresh, first-hand and accurate understanding of the inner thoughts, feelings and cultural background that encourage and originate artistic work.
The author lays out the methodology to be followed, the types of documentary sources that can be found by the researcher, how to deal with the artist and other witnesses to the artist´s life and daily work, the variety of resources to be found in the studio-atelier, issues concerning approach and writing style, format and structure of the thesis, clarification of the catalogue and the appendices, etc.
Dissertations and thesis on living artists are necessary tasks to be promoted in the academic field, as they incorporate and complement the work done by art critics. It is a kind of academic study which, in some cases, serves to do justice to artists with an important trajectory about whom, however, an in-depth monographic study has not been carried out yet.
The contents of this book come from the author's personal experience, drawn from the process of preparing and writing his own thesis about a painter who lives and works nowadays. The book has been prompted by the peculiarities and special factors that define the realization of an academic study on a living artist, quite different to those factors linked to other kind of art history dissertations about artists who have already passed away.
Undertaking such a project is especially exciting as the dialogue with the artist provides a fresh, first-hand and accurate understanding of the inner thoughts, feelings and cultural background that encourage and originate artistic work.
The author lays out the methodology to be followed, the types of documentary sources that can be found by the researcher, how to deal with the artist and other witnesses to the artist´s life and daily work, the variety of resources to be found in the studio-atelier, issues concerning approach and writing style, format and structure of the thesis, clarification of the catalogue and the appendices, etc.
