Short Guide to Writing about Art, A

by Barnet, Sylvan

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8th

ISBN13:

9780321292483

ISBN10:

0321292480

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Pub. Date:

1/1/2005

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Prentice Hall

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Key Benefit:A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Eighth Edition,the best-selling book of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and prepares them with the tools they need to present their ideas in effective writing.Key Topics:This concise yet thorough guide to "seeing and saying" addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, such as distinguishing between description and analysis, writing a comparison, using peer review, documenting sources, and editing the final essay.Market:This book is a perfect complement to any art course where writing is involved

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PREFACE

xvii

1 WRITING ABOUT ART

(40)

The Writing Process

(3)

What Is Art?

(7)

Why Write about Art?

(1)

The Writer's Audience as a Collaborator

(2)

The Functions of Critical Writing

(2)

A Sample Critical Essay

(7)

Douglas Lee, 'Whistler's Japanese Mother"

(4)

The Thesis and the Organization

(1)

A Note on Outlining

(2)

What Is an Interpretation-and Are All Interpretations Equally Valid?

(10)

Interpretation and Interpretations

(1)

Who Creates "Meaning"-Artist or Viewer?

(2)

When We Look, Do We See a Masterpiece-or Ourselves?

(3)

The Relevance of Context: The Effect of the Museum and the Picture Book

(3)

Arguing an Interpretation (Supporting a Thesis)

(1)

Expressing Opinions: The Writer's "I"

(8)

What Writing about Art Is: A Very Short View

(4)

Checklist of Basic Matters

(1)

2 ANALYSIS

(79)

Analytic Thinking: Seeing and Saying

(3)

Subject Matter and Content

(2)

Form and Content

(1)

Getting Ideas: Asking Questions to Get Answers

(52)

Basic Questions

(2)

Drawing and Painting

(16)

Sculpture

(9)

Architecture

(10)

Cautionary Words about Slides and Reproductions in Books and on the World Wide Web

(1)

Photography

(10)

Video Art

(2)

Another Look at the Questions

(1)

Formal Analysis

(5)

What Formal Analysis Is

(1)

Formal Analysis Versus Description

100

(2)

Opposition to Formal Analysis

102

(2)

Style as the Shaper of Form

104

(1)

Sample Essay: A Formal Analysis

105

(7)

Stephen Beer, "Formal Analysis: Prince Khunera as a Scribe"

107

(2)

Behind the Scene: Beers Essay, from Early Responses to Final Version

109

(3)

Postscript: Thoughts about the Words "Realistic" and "Idealized"

112

(8)

3 WRITING A COMPARISON

120

(15)

Comparing as a Way of Discovering

120

(2)

Two Ways of Organizing a Comparison

122

(4)

Sample Essay: A Student's Comparison

126

(9)

Rebecca Bedell: "John Singleton Copley's Early Development: From Mrs. Joseph Mann to Mrs. Ezekial Goldthwait"

127

(7)

Checklist for Writing a Comparison

134

(1)

4 WRITING AN ENTRY IN AN EXHIBITION CATALOG

135

(8)

Keeping the Audience in Mind

135

(5)

A Sample Entry

140

(3)

Checklist for Writing a Catalog Entry

142

(1)

5 WRITING A REVIEW OF AN EXHIBITION

143

(13)

What a Review Is

143

(6)

Drafting a Review

146

(3)

Checklist for Revising a Review

149

(1)

Three Sample Reviews

149

(7)

Phyllis Tuchman, "Mark Rothko"

150

(4)

Ken Johnson, "Mark Rothko"

154

(1)

Anonymous, "Mark Rothko"

155

(1)

6 HOW TO WRITE AN EFFECTIVE ESSAY

156

(11)

Looking Closely: Approaching a First Draft

157

(3)

Revising: Achieving a Readable Draft

160

(4)

Checklist for Revising a Draft

163

(1)

Peer Review

164

(1)

Checklist for Peer Review

164

(1)

Preparing the Final Version

165

(2)

7 STYLE IN WRITING

167

(31)

Principles of Style

167

(1)

Get the Right Word

168

(9)

Denotation

168

(1)

Connotation

169

(1)

Concreteness

169

(1)

A Note on the Use of "This" Without a Concrete Reference

170

(1)

A Note on Technical Language

171

(3)

Tone

174

(1)

Repetition

175

(1)

The Sound of Sense, the Sense of Sound

176

(1)

Write Effective Sentences

177

(7)

Economy

177

(2)

Wordy Beginnings

179

(1)

Passive Voice

179

(1)

Parallels

180

(1)

Variety

181

(1)

Subordination

182

(2)

Write Unified and Coherent Paragraphs

184

(12)

Unity

185

(4)

Coherence

189

(2)

Introductory Paragraphs

191

(3)

Concluding Paragraphs

194

(2)

Checklist for Revising Paragraphs

196

(1)

Note on Tenses

196

(2)

8 SOME CRITICAL APPROACHES

198

(23)

Social History: The New Art History and Marxism

199

(6)

Gender Studies: Feminist Criticism and Gay and Lesbian Studies

205

(8)

Biographical Studies

213

(1)

Psychoanalytic Studies

214

(2)

Iconography and Iconology

216

(5)

9 ART-HISTORICAL RESEARCH

221

(17)

Connoisseurship

221

(2)

History and Criticism

223

(1)

Some Critical Values

224

(11)

Arguing about Values

234

(1)

Historical Scholarship and Values

235

(3)

10 WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER

238

(38)

A Concise Overview

239

(1)

Primary and Secondary Materials

240

(1)

From Subject to Thesis

241

(1)

Finding the Material

242

(11)

The Library Catalog

243

(1)

Browsing in Encyclopedias, Books, and Book Reviews

244

(2)

Indexes and Subscription Databases to Published Material

246

(5)

Other Guides

251

(2)

Art Research and the World Wide Web

253

(10)

The Internet and the Web

253

(1)

Where to Start

254

(1)

Web Search Engines

254

(1)

Web Subject Directories

255

(1)

Art-Related Directories

256

(1)

Museum Directories

256

(1)

Finding, Viewing, and Downloading Images

256

(2)

Evaluating Web Sites

258

(1)

Checklist for Evaluating Web Sites

259

(1)

Referencing Web Pages

259

(1)

Checklist for Electronic Documentation

260

(1)

Citations for Electronic Materials

261

(2)

Posting Questions

263

(1)

Embedding URLs in Your Paper

263

(1)

Keeping a Sense of Proportion

263

(2)

Reading and Taking Notes

265

(4)

Drafting and Revising the Paper

269

(7)

Checklist for Reviewing a Revised Draft of a Research Paper

274

(2)

11 MANUSCRIPT FORM

276

(49)

Basic Manuscript Form

276

(3)

Some Conventions of Language Usage

279

(12)

The Apostrophe

279

(1)

Capitalization

280

(1)

The Dash

280

(1)

The Hyphen

281

(1)

Foreign Words and Quotations in Foreign Languages

281

(1)

Left and Right

282

(1)

Names

282

(2)

Avoiding Sexist Language

284

(1)

Avoiding Eurocentric Language

285

(4)

Spelling

289

(1)

Titles

290

(1)

Italics and Underlining

291

(1)

Quotations and Quotation Marks

291

(4)

Acknowledging Sources

295

(6)

Borrowing Without Plagiarizing

295

(3)

Fair Use of Common Knowledge

298

(1)

"But How Else Can I Put It?"

299

(2)

Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism

301

(1)

Documentation

301

(1)

Footnotes and Endnotes

302

(1)

Kinds of Notes

302

(1)

Footnote Numbers and Positions

302

(1)

Footnote Style

303

(1)

Chicago Manual Style

303

(9)

Books

304

(2)

Journals and Newspapers

306

(1)

Secondhand References

307

(1)

Subsequent References

308

(1)

Interviews, Lectures, and Letters

308

(1)

Electronic Citations

309

(1)

Bibliography (List of Works Cited)

309

(1)

Bibliographic Style

309

(3)

Art Bulletin Style

312

(11)

Preparing the Manuscript

312

(1)

Text (Including Text of Footnotes)

313

(5)

Text References, Footnotes, and Frequently Cited Sources

318

(4)

Captions

322

(1)

Corrections in the Final Copy

323

(2)

12 ESSAY EXAMINATIONS

325

(6)

What Examinations Are

325

(1)

Writing Essay Answers

326

(4)

Last Words

330

(1)

CREDITS

331

(2)

INDEX

333

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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