Main entry:

Barnet, Sylvan, author.

Title & Author:

A short guide to writing about art / Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University.

Edition:

Third edition

Publication:

Glenview, Illinois : Scott, Foresman and Company, 1989
©1989

Description:

xiv, 170 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series:

Short guide series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- A note on the Third Edition -- Writing about art: Why write? ; The writer's audience ; The function of critical writing ; A sample essay: "Millet's The Gleaners" / Robert Herbert -- Some kinds of essays -- Expressing opinions -- Analysis: Analytical thinking: Seeing and saying ; Subject matter and content ; Asking questions to get answers: Drawings and paintings ; Sculpture ; Architecture ; Photography ; Another look at the questions -- Formal analysis or description? ; Style as the shaper of form ; Personal style and period style ; Sample essays: Two formal analyses: "Formal analysis: Prince Khunera as a Scribe" / Stephen Beer -- "Edvard Munch's The Scream" / Joan Daremo -- Writing a Comparison: The uses of comparison ; Two ways of organizing a comparison ; Sample essays: Two comparisons: "Two low relief carvings from the Fifteenth Century" / L. R. Rogers -- "John Singleton Copley's early development: From Mrs. Joseph Mann to Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait" / Rebecca Bedell -- In Brief: How to write an effective essay -- Style in Writing: Principles of style ; Get the right word: Denotation ; Connotation ; Concreteness ; Tone ; Repetition ; The sound of sense, the sense of sound -- Write effective sentences: Economy ; Parallels ; Subordination -- Write unified and coherent paragraphs: Unity ; Coherence ; Introductory paragraphs ; Concluding paragraphs -- Manuscript Form: Basic manuscript form ; Corrections in the final copy ; Quotations and quotation marks ;
Acknowledging sources: Borrowing without plagiarizing ; Fair use of common knowledge ; "But else can I put it?" -- Footnotes and Endnotes: Kinds of notes ; Footnote numbers and positions ; Footnote style -- Bibliography -- Some Conventions of Usage -- The Research Paper: A note on art-historical research and art criticism ; What research is ; Primary and secondary materials ; From subject to thesis ; Finding the material ; Reading and taking notes ; Writing the paper -- Essay examinations: What examinations are ; Writing essay answers ; Last words -- Index.
In English.

Summary:

"This book tries to help you to deepen your understanding of art--what art does and the ways in which it does it--and it also tries to help you transform your responses into words that will let your reader share your perceptions, your enthusiasms, and even your doubts... An essay on art is an attempt to help someone to see the work as you see it."--from Chapter 1, page 1.

ISBN:

0673396673
9780673396679

Subject:

Art criticism Authorship.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 28009
Call No.: ID N7476 REF; ID:88-B13847
Status: Available