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The Artist and Academia, Hardback Book

The Artist and Academia Hardback

Edited by Helen Phelan, Graham F. Welch

Part of the SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music series

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The Artist and Academia explores the relationship between artistic and academic ways of knowing.

Historically, these have often been presented as opposites; the former characterized as passionate and intuitive and the latter portrayed as systematic and rigorous.

Recent scholarship presents a more complex picture. Artistic knowledge demands high levels of skill and rigor, while academic research requires creativity and innovative thinking.

This edited collection brings together leading artists and scholars (as well as artist-scholars) to offer a variety of philosophical, educational, experiential, reflexive and imaginative perspectives on the artist and academia.

The contributions include in-depth, scholarly discussions on the nature of knowledge and creativity, as well as personal artistic statements from musicians, dancers, actors and writers.

Additionally, it explores both the mediational and subversive spaces created by the meeting of artistic and academic traditions.

While the book addresses global themes by global writers, its core case study is an educational experiment called the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Established in 1994, it set out to reconfigure the place of the artist in the context of contemporary higher education.

The material is clustered into three parts. Part One and Part Two explore the artist as mediator, educator and subversive in academia.

Grounded in close-to-practice research, Part Three concludes the volume with a set of case studies from the Irish World Academy.

Artistic and academic knowledge come together in this unique set of pieces to explore the development of more inclusive and imaginative pedagogical values.

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