Material Thinking - Tapa blanda

Material Thinking is a ground-breaking book for artists, and for those who study or teach in the arts. Author and artist Paul carter provides an intimate, first-hand account of how ideas are turned into works, and how the material thinking that these artworks embody produces new understandings about ourselves, our histories and the culture we inhabit. Taking as his subject several artistic collaborations which resulted in performances, exhibitions or videos, Carter explores how each unfolded. In the course of this analysis he constructs a philosophy of how the practice and theory of making art are interconnected, a philosophy powerful enough to provide an intellectual underpinning for the new, and still developing, field of creative research.

Interdisciplinary scholar, artist and writer Paul Carter is currently professorial research fellow at The Australian Centre, University of Meibourne. His most recent book is Repressed Spaces: the Poetics of Agoraphobia, Reaktion Books, London, 2002. Other books include The Road to Botany Bay, 1987 and The Lie of the Land, 1996. He is currently working on an LED-based artwork and ground design for North Terrace, Adelaide, called Tracks. With artist Ruark Lewis, he created for the Sydney 2000 Oylmpics Relay, a polychrome text-based artwork, located at Fig Grove adjacent to the main stadium.