A complete guide for introductory students that demystifies writing about art.
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...
Practical information for artists trying to sell their work. Formatted in a workbook style with fill exercises and examples.
Artis a social form, a thing made by me that is meant for you. ... Her novels include The Blindfold (1992); The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996); What I Loved (2003); The Sorrows of an American (2008); The Summer Without Men (2011); and ...
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...
A single-volume anthology of acclaimed writings on the world of fine arts ranges from ancient times to the present day as it includes essays by Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, Vasari and Freud on why the Mona Lisa smiles, and ...
An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary art How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (New York and London: Basic Books, 1963), 248. His account of this art appears in his The Way of the Masks, translated by Sylvia ...
A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Eighth Edition, The best-selling text of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and prepares them with...
The topics covered within this varied collection include Paul Gauguin’s collages of quotations, Sophie Calle’s collaboration with Paul Auster, Henry James’ portraiture, Bernard Berenson’s fictional artist ‘Amico di Sandro’, ...
Visual Literacy acquaints students with the critical issues that shape the discipline of art and teaches them to write about art from a variety of scholarly and rhetorical perspectives.