Oral History in the Visual Arts [Paperback]

Interviews are becoming an increasingly dominant research method in art, craft, design, fashion and textile history. This groundbreaking text demonstrates how artists, writers and historians deploy interviews as creative practice, as 'history', and as a means to insights into the micro-practices of arts production and identity that contribute to questions of 'voice', authenticity, and authorship.

Through a wide range of case studies from international scholars and practitioners across a variety of fields, the volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.Oral History in the Visual Artsis essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners across the visual arts.

Through a wide range of international case studies, this interdisciplinary volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded.

Oral History in the Visual Artsdeliberately disrupts, unsettles and pivots the discourse on how both visual and intellectual observation functions; it opens up new possibilities in the ways in which the small stories of verbal communication transact with and reframe visual production. -Fashion, Society & Popular Culture

Linda Sandinois the CCW/V&A Senior Research Fellow at Victoria & Albert Museum.

Matthew Partingtonis the V&A Museum Senior Research Fellow (Applied Arts) at UWE and a Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Introduction: Oral History in and about Art, Craft and Design - Linda Sandino, V&A/CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London, UKPart One: Arts Practices The Body Event: Voice and Recorded Histories in the Creation of a Sound Installation Based on the Ideas of the Work of Artist John Latham - David Toop, sound artist and writer, UK De Mudder Tongue: Oral History Work as an Arts Practice - MichaellÓ3