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Becoming an artist: life histories and visual images

Tamboukou, Maria and Weiss, Gali 2013, Becoming an artist: life histories and visual images. In Sandino, Linda and Partington, Matthew (ed), Oral history in the visual arts, Bloomsbury, London, Eng., pp.171-180.

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Title Becoming an artist: life histories and visual images
Author(s) Tamboukou, Maria
Weiss, Gali
Title of book Oral history in the visual arts
Editor(s) Sandino, Linda
Partington, Matthew
Publication date 2013
Chapter number 17
Total chapters 17
Start page 171
End page 180
Total pages 10
Publisher Bloomsbury
Place of Publication London, Eng.
Keyword(s) oral history
narrative research
visual arts
Summary Chapter summary:
In this chapter, we consider the experiences of an art/research experiment that took place in the context of the annual conference of the British Sociaological Association (BSA), held at the University of East London in April 2007. The essay is in four parts: in the first section, the researcher gives the context of the project that underpinned the BSA event, mapping its theoretical directions and methodological moves. In the second section, the artist tells stories of becoming through words and images. The force of the artist’s narrative challenges and reconfigures discursively constructed boundaries between the researcher and the artist, initiating a dialogic encounter that unfolds in the third section as a visual/textual interface. This encounter revolves around the quest for meaning, which is after all what oral history is about (Portelli, 2011). Our quest for meaning actually inspired us to write about and problematize the BSA event. In this light, the final section looks critically into some of the questions that have arisen, situating them within wider problematics in the field of oral histories and narrative research.

Book summary:
Interviews are becoming an increasingly dominant research method in art, craft, design, fashion and textile history. This groundbreaking text demonstrates how artists, writers and historians deploy interviews as creative practice, as 'history', and as a means to insights into the micro-practices of arts production and identity that contribute to questions of 'voice', authenticity, and authorship. Through a wide range of case studies from international scholars and practitioners across a variety of fields, the volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.
ISBN 0857851977
9780857851970
9780857851987
0857851985
Language eng
Field of Research 160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified
190502 Fine Arts (incl Sculpture and Painting)
200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
HERDC Research category B1.1 Book chapter
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30065812

Document type: Book Chapter
Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education
School of Communication and Creative Arts
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