Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists: Challenges, Practices, and Complexities (Paperback, 2020)

General Introduction.- 1. Writing About Contemporary Creative Art and Artists.- Christopher Wiley and Ian Pace.- PART I: Critical Perspectives.- 2. The Artist is Present: Scandal and the Academic Study of the Living Artist.- Lorraine York.- 3. From vocational calling to career construction: Late-career authors and critical self-reflection.- Hywel Dix.- 4. An Introduction to the Persistence of Art Writing.- Bob Dickinson.- 5. The purpose of the written element in composition PhDs.- Christopher Leedham and Martin Scheuregger.- 6. Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Western Art Music: Questions of Context, Realism, Evidence, Description and Analysis.- Ian Pace.- 7. When Ethnography becomes Hagiography: Uncritical Musical Perspectives.- Ian Pace.- PART II: Case Studies Across the Arts.- 8. Writing Catastrophe: Howard Barker and the Body.- Andy W. Smith.- 9. Writing the Ballerina: Sylvie Guillem, Misty Copeland and Lessons in Biography.- Jill Brown.- 10.  Amend the Arena: On Adrian Piper’s Work.- Vered Engelhard.- 11. Memory and Irony in The Apollonian Clockwork.- Joel M. Baldwin.- 12.  Artfrom: Researching the canon through publications of art and design.- Mimi Cabell and Phoebe Stubbs.- PART III: Art Considered on its Own Terms.- 13. Occlusionary Tactics (visual essay).-‘Bob’ Whalley.-14.  Abstracts (music composition, 2015).- Richard Birchall.- 15. MusicArt: Creating Dialogues Across the Arts.- Annie Yim, in conversation with Christopher Wiley.