Short Gd Wrtng about Art3 - Softcover

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9780673396679: Short Gd Wrtng about Art3

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ISBN 10: 0673396673 ISBN 13: 9780673396679

Publisher: Longman Higher Education, 1989

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A Short Guide to Writing About Art, 6/E, the best-selling text of its kind, encourages students to form their own opinions about art, and then equips them with the tools they need to write effective essays. This handy guide addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, including description versus analysis; the value of peer review; documenting sources; and editing the final essay.

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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.

About the Author:

Henry M. Sayre is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Oregon State University-Cascades Campus in Bend, Oregon. He earned his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Washington. He is producer and creator of the 10-part television series, A World of Art: Works in Progress, aired on PBS in the fall of 1997; and author of seven books, including A World of Art, The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams, The Object of Performance: The American Avante-Garde since 1970; and an art history book for children, Cave Paintings to Picasso.

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