Dear all,
I too have been listening in for some time. On this new topic of artist or academic I have a few thoughts based on my personal experiences that might be of interest to some.
I have been for the most part serial in my commitments to artistic and academic pursuits. First I studied to be an artist (architect then poet/writer), then became an academic researcher (and writer) but only after working in a marketing job and doing an MBA in finance. Now I am now pursuing a second career as an artist (oil painter this time). The red thread academically was that my research always had an aesthetic interest for me (organizational architecture, managerial humor, jazz as a metaphor for organizing, the development of genres of painting as a source of insight into how organization theorizing changes over time). So in a way I guess I wasn't that serial, having mixed my research with my artistic interests and imagination.
On reflection, however, and as someone who worked (academically) on organizational culture and identity as well as branding issues, I propose the following:
1) that culturally artists and academics typically diverge considerably,
2) identify is tough to maintain in an in-between (liminal?) state, at least I find my artistic identity easily destroyed by my academic one
3) as far as branding is concerned, I can so only one reason why anybody would want to brand themselves an academic artist (to get or keep their job in a university), though an artistic academic has quite a nice ring to it
Cheers,
Mary Jo
Mary Jo Hatch
C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research Professor of Banking and Commerce, Emerita, University of Virginia
Visiting Professor, IEDC Bled School of Management, Slovenia
International Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Reputation, Said Business School, Oxford University
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Ralph;
the answer is YES to both propositions...but explaining why will bring men in white coats running across the fields....
David
(still trying to be both...)
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:58:56 +1000, Ralph Kerle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I have followed this conversation with really great interest. It has been most informative. As I was kayaking this morning on Sydney's Middle Harbour practising my photographic art, a thought bubble popped into my consciousness.
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