Riley, Howard (2024) Assessing Practice-based Research in the Visual Arts: A Proposed New Criterion. Studies in Graduate & Postdoctoral Education. ISSN 2398-4686
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Abstract
Purpose The article is intended to support doctoral students structuring theses for research through practices in the visual arts, supervisors advocating such proposals, and those responsible for assessing proposals in university research degrees committees with limited experience of practice-based research. It offers an original criterion of assessment for examiners of practice-based doctorates. Methodology It distinguishes between propositional knowledge, non-propositional knowledge, and understanding. Findings It acknowledges the several decades of work already published on this question, distilling an aesthetic cognitivist position from which the visual arts are construed as powerful means of deepening our understanding, a source of non-propositional knowledge on a par with, although qualitatively different from, the way that the sciences are accepted as the means to propositional knowledge. Originality The terms perceptual intrigue and conceptual intrigue are coined as values implicit in aesthetic cognitivism, and their balance proposed as an original criterion for the assessment of practice-based research. Implications Consolidation of the acceptance of practice-based doctoral research within cross-disciplinary universities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
| Divisions: | Institutes and Academies > Wales Institute for Science & Art (WISA) > Academic Discipline: Art & Media |
| Depositing User: | Professor Howard Riley |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2024 12:34 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 07:51 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2692 |
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