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Short Guide to Writing About Art - Couverture souple

Barnet, Sylvan

 
9780316082235: Short Guide to Writing About Art
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0316082236 ISBN 13 : 9780316082235
Editeur : TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Barnet Sylvan

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Quatrième de couverture

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 tools they need to present their ideas in effective writing.

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.

This text is a perfect complement to any art course where writing is involved.

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Éditeur
TBS The Book Service Ltd
Date d'édition
1985
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0316082236
ISBN 13 
9780316082235
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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