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Phil Sawdon
Phil
Sawdon
Jane Tormey
Jane
Tormey
Are ambiguous research outcomes undesirable?
Loughborough University
2008
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Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
2008-10-24 13:53:52
Online resource
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/Are_ambiguous_research_outcomes_undesirable_/9332477
This paper supports the position that interpretation in the visual and performing arts is fundamentally different from other disciplines. Specifically – in responding to the question: “Are un-ambiguous research outputs in the arts possible or desirable?” we argue that ambiguous research outputs are both desirable and inevitable – and that “interpretation” should not be constrained by the requirement of unambiguous language and that practice-based research should strive to demonstrate its findings by methods most appropriate to the mode of practice in question.