Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists

Chapter 1 Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists

Chapter 2 The Artist Is Present: Scandal and the Academic Study of the Living Artist

Chapter 3 From Vocational Calling to Career Construction: Late-Career Authors and Critical Self-reflection

Chapter 4 The Purpose of the Written Element in Composition PhDs

Chapter 5 Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Western Art Music: Questions of Context, Realism, Evidence, Description and Analysis

Chapter 6 When Ethnography Becomes Hagiography: Uncritical Musical Perspectives

Chapter 7 Writing Catastrophe: Howard Barker’s Theatre

Chapter 8 Writing the Contemporary Ballerina: Sylvie Guillem, Misty Copeland and Lessons in Biography

Chapter 9 Amend the Arena: On Adrian Piper’s Work

Chapter 10 Writing About Contemporary Composers: Memory and Irony in The Apollonian Clockwork

Chapter 11 Artfrom: Researching the Canon Through Publications of Art and Design

Chapter 12 Occlusionary Tactics

Chapter 13 Abstracts

Chapter 14 MusicArt: Creating Dialogues Across the Arts