A Short Guide to Writing About Art by Sylvan Barnet

A Short Guide to Writing About Art by Sylvan Barnet

<> The best-selling guide to writing about art Sylvan Barnet’s A Short Guide to Writing About Art guides students through every aspect of writing about art. 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. Coverage of essential writing assignments includes formal analysis, comparison, research paper, review of an exhibition, and essay examination. New to the 11th edition is a chapter on “Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials.”

"Extraordinarily useful and necessary for any class in art history!" - Johanna Movassat, San Jose State University "A step-by-step guide, incorporating both theory and practice, to critically thinking and writing about art" - Janet Carpenter, City College of San Francisco "An extremely useful book for art history students at all levels of study." - Melissa Dabakis, Kenyon College "I find the text to be fundamental in teaching students to write. It is concise enough to cover in a course on a particular art historical topic without overtaking the topic itself. It is always my secondary text." - Rebecca Trittel, Savannah College of Art and Design "Excellent definitive source on writing about art for the advanced student." - Carey Rote, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi

Sylvan Barnet was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Erasmus Hall High School, New York University (BA), and Harvard University(MA, PhD). For a while he was a

semiprofessional magician, but whenhe found that he could fool all of the people all of the time the work became boring, and so he became a college professor. He taught composition and

English literature at Tufts University for thirty years, published scholarly articles on Shakespeare, and is the author and coauthor of several books about the art of writing.

Pat Bellanca was born in East Hanover, New Jersey; she holds degrees in English from Wellesley College (BA) and Rutgers University (MA, PhD). She teaches in the Harvard College Writing

Program and is Director of Writing Programs at the Harvard Extension School, the university's open-enrollment evening division. Her research interests include composition studies and Gothic fiction,

fields that are not unrelated.

Marcia Stubbs was born in Newark, New Jersey, where she was drum majorette ofWeequahic High School's band, and she was educated at Stanford University and the University

of Michigan. She has taught at Tufts University, Harvard University, and Wellesley College, where she has directed the Writing Program. In addition to annotations on students'

compositions, she has written poems and verse translations, and she is the coauthor of several books on writing.

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ISBN 13	9780205886999
ISBN 10	020588699X
Title	A Short Guide to Writing About Art
Author	Sylvan Barnet
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	2014-08-14
Number of pages	384
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