Cover — Half Title — Title Page — Copyright Page — Dedication — Table of Contents — List of figures — Acknowledgments — Introduction — Bibliography — 1. The theories that wedge art and knowledge apart — The integrity of art — The particularity of the senses — Genius — Plato’s theory of the Forms — Descartes’s homunculus — Positivism and hermeneutics in the philosophy of science — Conclusion — Note — Bibliography — 2. What is artistic research? — Theories of artistic research — The definition of ‘research’ — A Kantian foundation for artistic research — Note — Bibliography — 3. We need to talk about concepts — What is a concept? — Approaching Karla Black’s Pleaser in terms of concepts — Kant’s argument for the necessary interaction between concept and intuition — Kant and embodiment — Experience as knowledge — The creation of contextualized novelty — When concepts are inadequate — Conclusion — Note — Bibliography — 4. Writing as rupture and relation — Sartre’s existentialism — Sartre’s theory of description — Rupture and relation — Art v. writing? — Note — Bibliography — 5. Insights from the metaphorical dimension of making — Making as metaphor in visual sociology — Material as metaphor in visual art — Articulating charcoal — Metaphor as the generator of knowledge — The manipulation of material as the basis of new meaning: Celmins’s Night Sky #19 — Conclusion — Note — Bibliography — 6. Does ‘art doctored’ equal ‘art neutered’? — An unproductive antagonism between research and the work the artist wants to produce — The autonomy of art in Kant and Adorno — The place of concepts in artistic research — Bibliography — 7. Drawing with Merleau-Ponty: a study in the constellation of concepts — Layering, data and play in ‘The Taste of Tree?’ — ‘Points and prompts for departure’ — Autofiguration