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Journal article
Understanding Art-Making as Documentation
Art documentation, v 36(2), pp 191-203
01 Sep 2017
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Abstract
Typically, arts information professionals are concerned with the documentation of artwork. As a provocation, this conceptual article explores how art-making itself can be considered a form of documentation and finished artworks as documents in their own right. In this view, art works as evidence in referencing something else, within a broader system, and under scrutiny it exposes how it references. Some implications of this perspective are discussed, springing from a historical discussion of document epistemology, research on the information behavior of artists, and the philosophy of Nelson Goodman. This discussion provides a framework for conceptualizing artistic information behavior along the entire information chain. Framing art-making in terms of information science in this way may help arts information professionals assist artists, as well as provide grounds for deeper co-understandings between artists and information scientists. Once information scientists consider art as a kind of document, one can begin to see that even non-artistic documents perhaps never were as objective or factual as they may have seemed.
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- Title
- Understanding Art-Making as Documentation
- Creators
- Tim Gorichanaz - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Art documentation, v 36(2), pp 191-203
- Publisher
- Univ Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000413772300002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85046118340
- Other Identifier
- 991019167663404721
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