In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Writing About Art
Chapter 2: Writing About Art: The Big Picture
Chapter 3: Formal Analysis and Style
Chapter 4: Analytical Thinking
Chapter 5: Writing A Comparison
Chapter 6: Writing an Entry in an Exhibition Catalog
Chapter 7: Writing a Review of an Exhibition
Chapter 8: Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials
Chapter 9: How to Write an Effective Essay
Chapter 10: Style in Writing
Chapter 11: Art Historical Research
Chapter 12: Some Critical Approaches
Chapter 13: Writing a Research Paper
Chapter 14: Manuscript Form
Chapter 15: Writing Essay Examinations
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Writing About Art
What Is Art?
Why Write about Art?
The Imagined Reader as the Writer's Collaborator
The Functions of Critical Writing
Some Words about Critical Thinking
A Sample Critical Essay
What Is an Interpretation--and Are All interpretations Equally Valid?
Expressing Opinions: The Writer's "I"
Chapter 2: Writing About Art: The Big Picture
Standing Back: Kinds of Writing (Informing and Persuading)
Close-Up: Drafting the Essay
Checklist of Basic Matters
Chapter 3: Formal Analysis and Style
What Formal Analysis Is
Formal Analysis Versus Description
Sample Essay: A Formal Analysis
Postscript: Thoughts about the Words “Realistic” and “Idealized”
Cautionary Words about Slides and Reproductions in Books and on the World Wide Web
Chapter 4: Analytical Thinking
Subject Matter and Content
Form and Content
Getting ideas for Essays: Asking Questions to Get Answers
Another Look at the Questions
Chapter 5: Writing A Comparison
Comparing as a Way of Discovering
Two ways of Organizing a Comparison
Sample Essay: A Student’s Comparison
Rebecca Bedell: “John Singleson Copley’s Early Development: From Mrs. Joseph Mann to Mrs. Ezekial Goldthwait”
Checklist for Writing a Comparison
Chapter 6: Writing an Entry in an Exhibition Catalog
Keeping the Reader in Mind
A Sample Entry
Checklist for Writing a Catalog Entry
Chapter 7: Writing a Review of an Exhibition
What a Review Is
Three Sample Reviews
Chapter 8: Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials
Kinds of Exhibitions
Kinds of Writing Assignments
Chapter 9: How to Write an Effective Essay
The Basic Strategy
Looking Closely: Approaching a First Draft
Revising: Achieving a Readable Draft
Peer Review
Preparing the Final Version
Chapter 10: Style in Writing
Principles of Style
Get the Right Word
Writing Effective Sentences
Write Unified and Coherent Paragraphs
A Note on Tenses
Chapter 11: Art Historical Research
Accounting for Taste
Historical Scholarship and Values
Chapter 12: Some Critical Approaches
Social History: The New Art History and Marxism
Gender Studies: Feminist Criticism and Gay and Lesbian Studies
Biographical Studies
Psychoanalytic Studies
Iconography and Iconology
Chapter 13: Writing a Research Paper
Primary and Secondary Materials
From Subject to Thesis
Finding the Material
Art Research and the World Wide Web
Keeping a Sense of Proportion
Reading and Taking Notes
Checklist for Note-Taking
Incorporating Your Reading into Your Thinking: The Art of Synthesis and Drafting and Revising the Paper
Checklist for Reviewing a Revised Draft of a Research Paper
Chapter 14: Manuscript Form
Basic Manuscript Form
Some Conventions of Language Usage
Quotations and Quotation Marks
Acknowledging Sources
Documentation
Footnotes and Endnotes: Chicago Manual Style
Chicago Manual of Style
Chapter 15: Writing Essay Examinations
What Examinations Are
Writing Essay Answers
Last Words