Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266) and index.

pt. I: Contexts for art practice as research. Pigment to pixel. The enlightenment as a research project
Promise of progress
Fractured realities
Paradigms lost. Method as truth
Doubting doctrines
The visual turn
Practice and beyond. Theorizing practice
Practice-based and practice-led research
pt. II: Theorizing art practice as research. Art practice as research. Beyond knowledge to understanding
Frameworks of art practice as research
Art practice as relational research
Art practice as transformative research
Visual knowing. Visual cognition
Visual arts knowing: a framework
Visual arts as transcognitive practice
A case study: critical influence
Artist as theorist. Sites of making
Reemergence of the artist-theorist
Critical perspectives and practices
pt. III: Visual arts research practices. Visualizing practices. A framework of visual arts practices
Visual practices: experiences
Empiricist inquiry: exercises
Interpretive discourse: encounters
Critical process: enactments
Visual arts projects. Exhibition and performance
Visual arts research projects
Solid endings and liquid beginnings
Uncertain conclusions

Art Practice as Research presents a compelling argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research. This text explores themes, practices and contexts of artistic inquiry and positions them within the discourse of research. Graeme Sullivan argues that legitimate research goals can be achieved by choosing different methods than those offered by the social sciences. The common denominator in both approaches is the attention given to rigor and systematic inquiry. Artists emphasize the role of the imaginative intellect in creating, criticizing, and constructing knowledge that is not only new but also has the capacity to transform human understanding.