Abstract
What constructs and gives understanding to new knowledge, its evaluation and meaning seems to dominate discourse these days in the university space, especially since the introduction of the visual arts field as a research degree in the university. What is new knowledge in the context of visual arts in an intellectual community like the university? Does art create knowledge in any given platform? What would be the methodology in this field? Can the body of the visual arts manifest a clear process of critical thinking, debate, and create a clear methodological process of creating new knowledge? Jelili Atiku and Odun Orimolade employ performance and drawing as clear processes of expression and contextualizing of knowledge in the visual arts. In the same vein, the authors have interrogated the creative imagination of Emmanuel Irokanulo in his doctoral dissertation on renewal of shadow as a component of new thinking in contemporary painting as a source of qualitative understanding of knowledge. The wall hangings of Blaise Gundu Gbaden, also engaged as a doctoral thesis, have been critically examined as a knowledge generating aspect of visual arts research. Keywords: Visual Arts, Research Degree, Drawing, Performance Act, Painting, Wall Hanging. DOI : 10.7176/ADS/76-05 Publication date :September 30 th 2019
Highlights
What is knowledge in the broadest sense of the word and its specific essence in constructing contemporary discourse in the visual arts? This understanding is necessary to clearly define the status of visual arts in the intellectual community like the university in Nigeria and other developing countries in the world
The context of knowledge in the visual arts is quite different in reasoning if compared to the scientific mode of knowledge production in the sciences
The visual arts deal more with human feeling and craft rather than scientific theory that defines knowledge or understanding in the quantitative view. These understandings or knowledge clearly characterized in the theory of modernism and post modernism which some scholars understand as “the sea change”, meaning the discourse between the ocean and her current, cannot create a steady image in one’s mind rather, it seems to create a continual dialogue between the two which create unsteady conversation in an unending manner or undefined situation which can manifest and be interpreted either way; the analogy of sea change is that “ human understanding” and ideas continue to change in creating a constant understanding of the phenomenal “the world”
Summary
What is knowledge in the broadest sense of the word and its specific essence in constructing contemporary discourse in the visual arts? This understanding is necessary to clearly define the status of visual arts in the intellectual community like the university in Nigeria and other developing countries in the world. 2. Body of the Argument In recent times, a lot of scholars are contemplating the idea of art practice as a process of creating new knowledge in the university space.
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