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