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Material Thinking
Material Thinking is a ground-breaking book for artists, and for those who study or teach in the arts.
Author and artist Paul Carter provides an intimate, first-hand account of how ideas are turned into works, and how the material thinking these artworks embody produces new understandings about ourselves, our histories and the culture we inhabit.
Taking as his subject several artistic collaborations which resulted in performances, exhibitions or videos, Carter explores how each unfolded. In the course of this analysis he constructs a philosophy of how the practice and theory of making art are interconnected, a philosophy powerful enough to provide an intellectual underpinning for the new, and still developing, field of creative research.
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'Here is startling, practical erudition. Prodigious book-learning is laced with real understanding of what it means to make art, to infuse sullen matter with something rousing, delicate and vital.'
-Ross Gibson, Research Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, UTS
'For twenty years I have campaigned for, and conducted, research in the medium of architecture itself, research that is not "about" architecture but "of" if. Carter begins by drawing the same distinction, but his ambition is he seeks to explore and define research in the zones where creative mediums shade into each other. To work in a zone is to collaborate with practitioners who are centred on their medium of practice. Carter posits a new role for the critic, not outside looking in, not "about" practice but inside, "of", and pushing practitioners towards the liminal, and thus toward the innovative.'
-Leon van Schaik, Innovation Professor of Architecture, RMIT
Author and artist Paul Carter provides an intimate, first-hand account of how ideas are turned into works, and how the material thinking these artworks embody produces new understandings about ourselves, our histories and the culture we inhabit.
Taking as his subject several artistic collaborations which resulted in performances, exhibitions or videos, Carter explores how each unfolded. In the course of this analysis he constructs a philosophy of how the practice and theory of making art are interconnected, a philosophy powerful enough to provide an intellectual underpinning for the new, and still developing, field of creative research.
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'Here is startling, practical erudition. Prodigious book-learning is laced with real understanding of what it means to make art, to infuse sullen matter with something rousing, delicate and vital.'
-Ross Gibson, Research Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, UTS
'For twenty years I have campaigned for, and conducted, research in the medium of architecture itself, research that is not "about" architecture but "of" if. Carter begins by drawing the same distinction, but his ambition is he seeks to explore and define research in the zones where creative mediums shade into each other. To work in a zone is to collaborate with practitioners who are centred on their medium of practice. Carter posits a new role for the critic, not outside looking in, not "about" practice but inside, "of", and pushing practitioners towards the liminal, and thus toward the innovative.'
-Leon van Schaik, Innovation Professor of Architecture, RMIT
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216 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2005
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Paul Carter
155 books90 followersPaul Carter was born in England in 1969. His father's military career had the family moving all over the world, re-locating every few years. Paul has lived, worked, gotten into trouble and been given a serious talking to in England, Scotland, Germany, France, Holland, Norway, Portugal, Tunisia, Australia, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Borneo, Columbia, Vietnam, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sumatra, the Philippines, Korea, Japan, China, USA and Saudi Arabia. Today he lives in Perth with his wife, baby daughter and two motorbikes.
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June 19, 2010
a topic of conversation around a warm brazier @ a party lead me to borrow, to b handed back ASAP. These essays require many more days of burrowing in thru the accademic jargon, to take notes to re-read some passages so they sink in...i enjoyed the brief exploration, learnt so much about my own Art processes and made good use of the geometric patterns on the cover in my photo_collages and montages...i guess i should have this one in my own physical library.
Without quoting from the cover reviews, Paul Carter is analysing from the point of view of his own collaborative embeded_ness within the various processes that Artists: film makers, video installation artists, performers, engage in, in materializing their creativity...from the inception of the idea right thru the various stages of bringing the concept into physical reality...
highly recommended
Without quoting from the cover reviews, Paul Carter is analysing from the point of view of his own collaborative embeded_ness within the various processes that Artists: film makers, video installation artists, performers, engage in, in materializing their creativity...from the inception of the idea right thru the various stages of bringing the concept into physical reality...
highly recommended
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