Special participant observer role stepping within the artist's artistic serial¶

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Description¶

Because arting is a unitless psychic phenomenon centered in the artist's stream of consciousness, the report argues the researcher must adopt a special participant observer role. The author states that "the researcher must step within the artistic serial of which, the situation is a part, and move as closely as possible to the creating stream of consciousness." The observer takes cues from the artist's readiness and treats first-person-singular statements as having undeniable validity even when historical inaccuracy is verifiable.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Indirect access to the artist's creating experience through in-process traces and stimulated process recall

Constraints¶

• The researcher must take responsibility for his impact on the art making; the ideal of leaving the phenomena untouched is not honest in passional, artistic affairs

Target Learners¶

• artists in drawing series studied by researchers

Target Learning Objectives¶

• qualitative, historical, contextual description of expressive situations

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Contextualism as the world view and general method for studying arting
• Counelis typology of research designs by time/space assumptions and unit versus class

Examples¶

• Drawing laboratory with time-lapse photography of drawing evolution
• Shared history feedback inquiry using stimulated recall of time-lapse replays

Key Sources¶

• Beittel, Kenneth R. (1972). A Case Methodology for the Study of the Drawing Process and the Drawing Series. Final Report. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED075274