Visual Metaphor and the Contemporary Artist: Ways of Thinking and Making - Softcover

Serig, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3836470918 ISBN 13: 9783836470919

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

Visual Metaphor and the Contemporary Artist: Ways of Thinking and Making investigates the practices and exhibition of contemporary artists to understand how they create meaning. Inquiry into metaphor arose from the field of rhetoric and has a tradition of study in linguistics. How, then, does metaphor become visual? And how do artists use them? Theories of visual metaphor often align with theories of linguistic metaphor. Yet cognitive views of metaphor suggest linguistic media may not be the only or best starting point for understanding visual metaphor. This study determines a conceptual structure to the creation of visual metaphors by these artists that closely aligns with the cognitive view of metaphor. This study also questions the role of metaphor in art education. This qualitative study includes art-based research methods in developing a conceptual structure of visual metaphor creation. Dan Serig takes an in-depth look at one aspect of artists'' work in a way that will be of interest to people seeking an example of alternative approaches to empirical research that includes studio practices, as well as those interested in the intersection of cognition and art.

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About the Author

Dan Serig is Assistant Professor of Art Education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he explores art practices as a form of research. He is also a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Arts Education Research at Teachers College, Columbia University. As an artist, Dan explores issues of cognition and culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3836470918
• ISBN 13: 9783836470919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172