A Short Guide to Writing About Art

Sylvan Barnet (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2014 | 11th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-205-88699-9 (ISBN)

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Sylvan Barnet’s A Short Guide to Writing About Art guides students through every aspect of writing about art. Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the tools they need to present their ideas through effective writing. Coverage of essential writing assignments includes formal analysis, comparison, research paper, review of an exhibition, and essay examination. New to the 11th edition is a chapter on “Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials.”

In this Section:

Brief Table of Contents
Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Writing About Art
Writing About Art: The Big Picture
Formal Analysis and Style
Analytical Thinking
Writing A Comparison
Writing an Entry in an Exhibition Catalog
Writing a Review of an Exhibition
Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials
How to Write an Effective Essay
Style in Writing
Art Historical Research
Some Critical Approaches
Writing a Research Paper
Manuscript Form
Writing Essay Examinations

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Writing About Art

What Is Art?
Why Write about Art?
The Imagined Reader as the Writer's Collaborator
The Functions of Critical Writing
Some Words about Critical Thinking
A Sample Critical Essay
What Is an Interpretation—and Are All interpretations Equally Valid?
Expressing Opinions: The Writer's “I”

Chapter 2: Writing About Art: The Big Picture

Standing Back: Kinds of Writing (Informing and Persuading)
Close-Up: Drafting the Essay
Checklist of Basic Matters

Chapter 3: Formal Analysis and Style

What Formal Analysis Is
Formal Analysis Versus Description
Sample Essay: A Formal Analysis
Postscript: Thoughts about the Words "Realistic" and "Idealized"
Cautionary Words about Slides and Reproductions in Books and on the World Wide Web

Chapter 4: Analytical Thinking

Subject Matter and Content
Form and Content
Getting ideas for Essays: Asking Questions to Get Answers
Another Look at the Questions

Chapter 5: Writing A Comparison

Comparing as a Way of Discovering
Two ways of Organizing a Comparison
Sample Essay: A Student's Comparison
Rebecca Bedell: "John Singleson Copley's Early Development: From Mrs. Joseph Mann to Mrs. Ezekial Goldthwait"
Checklist for Writing a Comparison

Chapter 6: Writing an Entry in an Exhibition Catalog

Keeping the Reader in Mind
A Sample Entry
Checklist for Writing a Catalog Entry

Chapter 7: Writing a Review of an Exhibition

What a Review Is
Three Sample Reviews

Chapter 8: Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials

Kinds of Exhibitions
Kinds of Writing Assignments

Chapter 9: How to Write an Effective Essay

The Basic Strategy
Looking Closely: Approaching a First Draft
Revising: Achieving a Readable Draft
Peer Review
Preparing the Final Version

Chapter 10: Style in Writing

Principles of Style
Get the Right Word
Writing Effective Sentences
Write Unified and Coherent Paragraphs
A Note on Tenses

Chapter 11: Art Historical Research

Accounting for Taste
Historical Scholarship and Values

Chapter 12: Some Critical Approaches

Social History: The New Art History and Marxism
Gender Studies: Feminist Criticism and Gay and Lesbian Studies
Biographical Studies
Psychoanalytic Studies
Iconography and Iconology

Chapter 13: Writing a Research Paper

Primary and Secondary Materials
From Subject to Thesis
Finding the Material
Art Research and the World Wide Web
Keeping a Sense of Proportion
Reading and Taking Notes
Checklist for Note-Taking
Incorporating Your Reading into Your Thinking: The Art of Synthesis and Drafting and Revising the Paper
Checklist for Reviewing a Revised Draft of a Research Paper

Chapter 14: Manuscript Form

Basic Manuscript Form
Some Conventions of Language Usage
Quotations and Quotation Marks
Acknowledging Sources
Documentation
Footnotes and Endnotes: Chicago Manual Style
Chicago Manual of Style

Chapter 15: Writing Essay Examinations

What Examinations Are
Writing Essay Answers
Last Words

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.8.2014
Sprache	englisch
Maße	10 x 10 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Kunst / Musik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-205-88699-X / 020588699X
ISBN-13	978-0-205-88699-9 / 9780205886999
Zustand	Neuware