Product Description

For art courses where there is a writing component.

 

This best-selling text has guided tens of thousands of art students through the writing process.  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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93147 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Back Cover

A Short Guide to Writing about Art offers invaluable advice for any art course where students write papers. It addresses a wealth of fundamental matters:

• description versus analysis
• som critical approaches to art (e.g., formal analysis, cultural materialism, gender studies)
• getting ideas for an essay
• engaging in peer review
• developing paragraphs
• organizing a comparison
• using bibliographic tools, including the Internet
• quoting sources
• writing captions for illustrations
• avoiding sexist and Eurocentric language
• editing the final draft
• documenting sources, using either The Chicago Manual of Style or The Art Bulletin style
• preparing for essay examinations

Among the new features of the sixth edition are new guidelines for using the World Wide Web and the Internet for art-historical research, five new checklist (e.g., a checklist for evaluating Web Sites), ten new illustrations, and the style guide published by The Art Bulleting. Several sample essays are also included, accompanied by analyses that show readers the particular strengths of effective writing.

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Customer Reviews

wow!
I was quite surprised, but I really like this book. I was having a lot of trouble writing an art history paper and this book really helped clarify my thoughts. The book asks pointed questions that helps you focus your thoughts. I would strongly recommend this book to someone writing an art history paper.

Make a B an A in your BA
This book is great for undergrads and postgrads who want to focus their writing more. It has great check lists and short descriptions of some of the concepts used in writing about art.
it has examples of essays and sentence construction.
It is very accessible and you can dip in and out easily.

Many Thanks to the Author
As a student who studies art history, this book helped me (and still helps me from time to time) a lot. Great when you need a guiding light when writing. I really thank the author.