Art-Based Research

Shaun McNiff

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9781849853514
• eBook ISBN: 9781846428951
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Art General
• Index: Psychology

Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of research can be created that resonate with the artistic process.

Clearly and cogently expressed, the theoretical arguments are illustrated by numerous case examples, and the final part of the book provides a wealth of ideas and thought provoking questions for research.

This challenging book will prove invaluable to creative art therapy educators, students, and clinicians who wish to approach artistic inquiry as a way of conducting research. It will also find a receptive audience within the larger research community where there is a rising commitment to expanding the theory and practice of research. Integrating artistic and scientific procedures in many novel ways, this book offers fresh and productive visions of what research can be.

Index

Action research, 113

Active imagination, 148, 185, 191, 204, 212

Adamson, Edward, 103–104, 131, 209

Aesthetic criteria for reliability and validity, 57–61, 172–174, 192

Aesthetic measurement, 171–178

Aesthetic quality, 171–178

Aldridge, David, 160–161, 194, 209

Allen, Pat, 13, 28, 33, 36, 59–60, 115, 123–124, 130–131, 163, 209

Allen, Woody, 164

American Art Therapy Association, 182, 199–200, 202

American Art Therapy Association Guidelines for Research, 136

Amplification, 159–167

Anderson, Frances, 114, 188, 209, 215

Aquinas, Thomas, 59–60

Archetypal imagery, 125–128, 191

Archetypal methods and inquiries, 26, 53, 76, 115, 125–128

Architecture, 187

Arnheim, Rudolf, 58, 61–62, 104, 132–133, 165, 174, 178, 187, 190, 209

Arrested motion, 59–60

Art as Healing (Adamson), 103, 209

Art as Therapy with Children (Kramer), 102–103, 212

Art as Medicine (McNiff), 28, 185, 214

Art education, 114, 188–189, 210, 215

Art history, 125–126, 173

Art is a Way of Knowing (Allen), 28, 36, 59, 123–124, 163, 209

Artistic knowing, 182–183

Artist in residence model, 33, 104, 209

Artistry of t...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Of Related Interest
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Preface
• I. Theoretical Foundations
• II. Review of Art Therapy Research
• III. Research Ideas
• Postscript
• References
• Index