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A Short Guide To Writing About Art (short Guide Series)
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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
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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