A Short Guide to Writing about Art
- ISBN-10
- 0321046056
- ISBN-13
- 9780321046055
- Series
- A Short Guide to Writing about Art
- Category
- Reference / General
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Longman
- Author
- Sylvan Barnet
Description
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
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