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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Birmingham City University
Eros and Knowledge: Wishful Thinking?
This is an article on Adorno’s aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory and practice-led research in the arts. Here, I criticise the traditional image of the dusty academic researcher as a neutral and objective, detached and unaffected, figure. I outline the conditions for a new model of engagement encompassing art, aesthetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
“This publication, including essays by James Hellings, Lucille Holmes, Griselda Pollock and Adrian Rifkin, is the final outcome of a two-day symposium entitled ‘Rigorous Holes – Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Theory in Art and Performance Research’ held in the Red Room at Chelsea College of Art, Millbank on 29 and 30 May 2007. ‘Rigorous Holes’ was the concluding seminar of a two year AHRC funded doctoral training programme led by Dr Malcolm Quinn at Wimbledon College of Art and Professor Dany Nobus at Brunel University.” (From the Introduction to the publication)
This article generates new ways of thinking that influence creative practice and art research. The book and the website create, inspire and support new forms of artistic, literary, social, and psychological expression.
