The authors wish to thank the University of Southampton for its initial support of this project through its Internationalisation Fund and the University’s Winchester School of Art, on whose teaching practices most of the book is based. Simon Morley was responsible for researching, compiling and writing Sections I, III, IV and V. Annie Makhoul coordinated Sections I, II and V, in addition to overseeing the entire project from its early stages.

Many academic staff at the Winchester School of Art have provided invaluable support, resources and advice during the development of this project and our sincere thanks go to Cecilia Langemar, Tim Metcalf, Nick Stewart and Ray Yang for photography for the illustrations, and to Monica Chen and Craig Wadman for the illustrations themselves. We also wish to thank many others who have made a contribution to this project at various stages. Our special thanks go to Professor Ryan Bishop and Professor Jonathan Harris, without whom this project would not have reached its final stages.

The following works and websites were consulted. For the verb list in Section V, the University of Southampton’s Quality Handbook, ‘Writing Aims and Learning Outcomes’ (https://sharepoint.soton.ac.uk/sites/ese/quality_handbook/Handbook/Index.aspx). For Section I: The Free Dictionary (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com), Artcyclopedia (www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html), Artlex (www.artlex.com) and Webmuseum (www.ibiblio.org/wm). For Section V, John Lechte’s Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Post-Humanism (London and New York: Routledge, 2nd edn, 2008), the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu), the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (www.iep.utm.edu) and the European Graduate School website (www.egs.edu).