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Writing About Art
How to Write about Contemporary Art by Call Number: Central Library Art Books N7476 .W555 2014Publication Date: 2014
Writing About Art-Guides
History of Art by
This completely revised and updated edition introduces the reader to the practices, challenges, questions and writings encountered in the study of art history. Marcia Pointon describes and analyzes various methods and approaches to the discipline--explaining the history of their differences and their effects on the practice of art history. Stressing the multi-faceted nature of the field, she discusses the relationship of art history to film, literature, design history and anthropology. She also covers training and vocational aspects of art history, and provides a wealth of information on different career opportunities. This edition covers recent debates in art history and contemporary changes in the discipline, as well as 20 new illustrations.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books N380 .P56 1997ISBN: 0415151813Publication Date: 1997
How to Write Art History by
The book introduces two basic art historical methods - formal analysis and contextual analysis - revealing how to use these methods in writing papers and in class discussion. The common strengths and weaknesses of an art history essay are highlighted by using real examples of written work, and at each stage of the writing process DAlleva offers valuable advice on developing an argument convincingly. Providing a fascinating view of the study of art history within its historical context, this book will be particularly helpful for those considering a career in this rewarding discipline.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books N380 .D35 2010ISBN: 1856696952Publication Date: 2010
Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work by
In this book West describes a technique she calls "mapping through writing" that encourages visual artists to ask strategic questions, approach problems, and catalyze creative thinking. The book is structured as a series of exercises and prompts that define the mapping process and introduce methods for artists to develop, articulate, and disseminate ideas. Author Anne West received the 2012 John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching Designers Stephanie Grey and Daryl Smith received 'Best in Category, Digital Books' at the 55th Annual New England Book Show for Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books N71 .W449 2011ISBN: 0983472505Publication Date: 2011
A Short Guide to Writing about Art by
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.
Call Number: Central Library Reference N7476 .B37 2011ISBN: 0205708250Publication Date: 2010
A Survival Guide for Art History Students by
Designed to guide learners through the often disorienting experience of taking a first art history class, this book addressesall aspectsof that total experience.KEY TOPICSSpecific chapter topics cover note-taking during lecture, studying for and taking slide exams, writing response papers, methodology, how to critique secondary scholarship, and what to do with an art history degree.For individuals with little or no experience in art history, and an interest in the powerful images that can provide a rich perspective on social, political, and cultural history.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books N385 .M37 2005ISBN: 0131401971Publication Date: 2004
Visual Literacy: Writing About Art by
Visual Literacyacquaints 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.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books: N7476 .T83 2002ISBN: 0072302224Publication Date: 2001
Writing about Art by
This straightforward guide prepares students to describe, interpret, and write about works of art in meaningful and lasting terms. Designed as a supplement to Art History survey and period texts, this efficient book features a step-by-step approach to writing–from choosing a work to write about, to essay organization, to research techniques, to footnote form, to preparing the final essay. For beginners as well as more advanced students.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books N7476 .S29 2009ISBN: 020564578XPublication Date: 2008
Writing for the Visual Arts by
Written in a reader-friendly style interlaced with vivid examples, this how-to writing manual for visual artists details a comprehensive and concise methodology for the full spectrum of writing tasks they will encounter in both the academic and professional worlds--academic research papers, resumes, letters of application, manifestos, press releases, and grants. It emphasizes that professionals' art, in itself, will not always speak for them, and that they must, therefore, learn to articulate their concepts and ideas, and to argue for, and earn, their place in the world of art. Abundant examples (of stages of document development and complete documents) represent amateur as well as professional sources and an exceptionally full spectrum of visual art--painting, sculpting, collage, drawing, graphic arts, architecture, film, and theater.How to Write Academic Art Papers. How to Write about Your Art. How to Revise and Peer Review. How to Write a Resume. How to Write an Application Cover Letter. How to Write a Manifesto. How to Write Press Releases. How to Write Grants and Proposals.For visual artists of all kinds.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books N7476 .B47 2001ISBN: 0130225487Publication Date: 2000
Writing about Architecture by
Extraordinary architecture addresses so much more than mere practical considerations. It inspires and provokes while creating a seamless experience of the physical world for its users. It is the rare writer that can frame the discussion of a building in a way that allows the reader to see it with new eyes. Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a significant essay written by a renowned architecture critic, followed by a close reading and discussion of the writer's strategies. Lange offers her own analysis using contemporary examples as well as a checklist of questions at the end of each chapter to help guide the writer. This important addition to the Architecture Briefs series is based on the author's design writing courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. Lange also writes a popular online column fornbsp;Design Observernbsp;and has written fornbsp;Dwell, Metropolis, New Yorknbsp;magazine, andnbsp;The New York Times. Writing About Architecturenbsp;includes analysis of critical writings by Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs. Architects covered include Marcel Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Field Operations, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Frederick Law Olmsted, SOM, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781616891138Publication Date: 2012
Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939 by
Surrealist Art and Writing offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism, the avant-garde movement that, in its search for contemporary lyricism and imagery, united literature and art to politics and psychology. Examining Surrealism's main phases from a variety of perspectives, Jack Spector emphasises the rebellion of the protagonists against their middle-class education. In Manifestos and Manifestations the Surrealists promoted Marxist over liberal politics; Freudian psychoanalysis over French psychiatry; Hegelian dialectics over Cartesian logic; and the outmoded, psychotic, or childish over modernist art. This study offers a coherent overview of the exciting and important interwar period in Europe. In particular it places avant-garde ideas and imagery within the historical and political contexts of the 1920s and 30s, integrating them into contemporary artistic and ideological currents.
Call Number: Central Library Art Books NX542 .A1 S68 1997ISBN: 0521553113Publication Date: 1996
