A Short Guide to Writing About Art (Seventh Edition)

Barnet, Sylvan; Sylvan Barnet (Author)

ISBN 10: 0321101448 / ISBN 13: 9780321101440

Published by Longman, New York, Boston, San Francisco, et al., 2003

About this Item

317 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Seller Inventory # 4iiiFi0002

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Short Guide to Writing About Art (Seventh Edition)
• Publisher: Longman, New York, Boston, San Francisco, et al.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321101448
• ISBN 13: 9780321101440
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Nancy Danahy (Cover Design); Jan Vermeer (Front Cover Illustration); Robert Smithson (Back Cover Illustration)
• Edition: 7th Edition/1st Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Do-It-Yourself, Self-Help, How-To, etc.
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Art, Art Criticism, Art History & Studies, etc.

About this title

Synopsis

A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Seventh Edition, the best-selling text of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculpture, 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.

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.