Is Making Art a Way of Thinking?

Authors

  • Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2023/25/3

Keywords:

artists, thinking, art.

Abstract

Asking how artists think implies perceiving artists as a kind of a different species. The question may therefore provoke ambiguous reactions: from recognizing the difference between thinking in art and thinking in other domains, through a rejection of such a difference, to a total negation of the possibility to think through art. Where does the line dividing thinking about art and thinking about artists lie? Is even arguing that art can be a way to think or that it can be/does not have to be discursive still necessary? The article Is Making Art a Way of Thinking attempts to tackle these questions.

Author Biography

Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska – philosopher of culture, linguist, culture and art theoretician. She is an associate researcher at Sorbonne 1 Pantheon University (ACTE Institute), assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. She also holds lectures at Collegium Civitas.
She gained her MA degrees in philosophy and applied linguistics with a specialization in English and French interpretation at the University of Warsaw. She obtained a PhD degree in philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw.
Author of the books After -face. Transgressing Visibility in Art and Philosophy (Słowo / obraz terytoria 2015) and Directing the Waves. Thinking in Visual and Musical Avant-gardes (Słowo / obraz teorytoria 2019). NCN scholarship holder, author of articles and essays on art.
She publishes her works in "Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts", "Sztuka i filozofia" and
"Estetyka i Krytyka".

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Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska, Dyrygując falom. Myślenie w wizualno-muzycznych awangardach, Słowo/obraz terytoria, Gdańsk, 2019.

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Michael Taussig, Mastery of the non-mastery in the age of meltdown, The University Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2020.

Conversations with Jan Gostyński and Agnieszka Sztejerwald

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Published

2023-12-13

Issue

Vol. 25 (2023): How do artists think?

Section

Articles

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