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    Visual Literacy: Writing about Art

    Visual Literacy: Writing about Art by Tucker, Amy;

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    • Publisher McGraw-Hill Higher Education
    • Date of Publication 1 October 2001

    • ISBN 9780072302226
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages192 pages
    • Size 231x162x12 mm
    • Weight 386 g
    • Language English
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    Visual Literacy acquaints students with the critical issues that shape the discipline of art and teaches them to write about art from a variety of scholarly and rhetorical perspectives.

    Visual Literacy acquaints students with the critical issues that shape the discipline of art and teaches them to write about art from a variety of scholarly and rhetorical perspectives.

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    Table of Contents:

    PART I. ELEMENTS OF VISUAL ANALYSIS

    Chapter 1 Responding to Art: Visual Literacy and the Practice of Writing

    Writing Assignment: Journal Responses to a Work of Art

    Visual Memory and Visual Literacy

    Observations and Questions

    The Art History Context

    Intertextuality

    The Comparative Method

    Medium

    Genre

    Iconography

    Moving from Observation to Interpretation

    Research and Connoisseurship

    WORKS CITED AND SUGGESTED READING



    Chapter 2 “Intelligent Seeing”: Description and Analysis of Form

    Writing Assignment: Formal Analysis of a Work of Art

    The Visual Elements

    Line, Shape, Mass and Volume

    Color and Value

    Texture

    Spatial Depth, Perspective, and Scale

    Time and Motion

    Principles of Design

    Unity and Variety

    Balance

    Scale and Proportion

    Rhythm, Movement and Tension

    Using Description to Support a Thesis

    Writing Formal Analyses

    Reviewing and Revising Your Impressions

    WORKS CITED AND SUGGESTED READING



    Chapter 3 On Site: Art and Architecture in Social Contexts

    Writing Assignment: Contextual Analysis of a Work of Art

    Site as Context: The Rock Garden at Ryoan-ji

    Subject Matter, Function, and Form: The Beaune Altarpiece

    Historical Context: Main Entrance and Floorplan,

    Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Patrons, Performers, and Audience: A Mende Helmet Mask

    WORKS CITED AND SUGGESTED READING



    Chapter 4 The Museum as Context: Display and Representation

    Writing Assignment: Analysis of an Exhibition

    Fine Art Display: A Mende Mask at the Metropolitan Museum

    Formalist Display: Bamana Masks at the Barnes Foundation

    Updated Ethnographic Display: A Baule Mask at the Museum for African Art

    Artist’s Installation: Fred Wilson’s Installation at the Seattle Art Museum

    Continuing Controversies

    Writing Assignment: Position Paper on a Current Museum Controversy

    What Is Exhibited?

    Who Is Represented?

    Who Owns the Object?

    WORKS CITED AND SUGGESTED READING

    CONCLUSIONS TO PART I: ELEMENTS OF VISUAL ANALYSIS



    PART II. ESSAY WRITING STRATEGIES

    Chapter 5 Planning and Developing an Essay

    Case Study: Contextual Analysis of a Work of Art

    Recording Impressions

    Freewriting

    Browsing: Conducting Preliminary Research

    Narrowing the Topic and Formulating a Thesis

    Outlining: Mapping Your Route through the Essay

    Drafting the Essay

    Composing an Introduction

    Developing Conclusions

    Student Essay: “Reading a Mughal Miniature,” by Mahwash Shoaib (MLA documentation style)

    Incorporating Research in Your Essay



    Chapter 6 Structuring an Essay

    Case Study: Formal Analysis and Comparison/Contrast

    Student Essay: “The Private Made Public: Goya’s Josefa Castilla Portugal de Garcini y Wanabrok,” by Baz Dreisinger (Chicago Manual documentation style)

    Linking with Transitional Words and Phrases

    Structuring with Topic Sentences

    Organizing Description and Formal Analysis

    Structuring Comparison/Contrast

    Unifying Verb Tense

    Unifying Tone and Diction



    Chapter 7 Revising an Essay

    Case Study: Exhibition Catalogue (A Group Project)

    Re-examining the Thesis

    Rewriting Paragraphs

    Revising the Essay Structure

    Reviewing Your Use of Sources

    Revisiting Sentences



    Chapter 8 Editing an Essay: Grammar, Punctuation, Usage

    Editing for Consistency

    Subject/Pronoun Agreement

    Subject/Verb Agreement

    Parallel Structure

    Reviewing Word Order

    Misplaced Modifiers

    Dangling Modifiers

    Split Infinitives

    Punctuation Problems and Solutions

    Apostrophe for Possessives

    Misused Commas

    Usage: Commonly Confused Words

    Manuscript Mechanics, from The Art Bulletin Style Guide

    Titles

    Numerals

    Capitalization

    Spelling and Hyphenation

    Abbreviations

    Italics

    Quotations

    Usage

    A Note on Captions

    CONCLUSIONS TO PART II: ESSAY WRITING STRATEGIES



    PART III. RESEARCH AND CRITICAL METHODS

    Chapter 9 Researching and Documenting an Essay

    Case Study: Reception History of a Work of Art

    Online Research

    Visiting the Public Library Online

    Primary and Secondary Sources

    A Word of Caution on Using Internet Sources

    Museum Web Sites

    Using the Online Catalog in Your School Library

    Searching the Stacks

    Consulting Art Periodical Indices

    The Art Index and the BHA

    Locating Articles and Taking Notes

    General Reference Works

    Visiting Specialized Libraries

    Documenting Sources

    What to Document

    Why and How to Document

    Chicago Manual of Style Format

    Footnotes and Endnotes

    Footnote Citations for Books, Dissertations, and Theses

    Footnote Citations for Articles in Journals and Newspapers

    Footnote Citations for Interviews, Correspondence, and Internet Sources

    Bibliography or Works Cited

    Bibliographic Citations for Books, Dissertations, and Theses

    Bibliographic Citations for Articles in Journals and Newspapers

    Bibliographic Citations for E-Mail and Internet Sources

    Art Bulletin Style

    Text References, Footnotes, and Frequently Cited Sources

    MLA Style



    Chapter 10 Critical Perspectives: On Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Eugene Delacroix

    Case Study: Critical Approaches to a Work of Art

    Biographical Studies

    From “The Life and Work of Eugene Delacroix,” by Charles Baudelaire

    Psychoanalytic Approaches

    Formalism

    From Eugene Delacroix, by Barthélémy Jobert

    The Social History of Art

    Marxist Theory

    “About Critical Reception: Women of Algiers,” by Véronique Chagnon-Burke

    Gender Studies, Feminist Criticism, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Queer Theory

    Postcolonial Theory

    ‘Passivity and Politics in Delacroix’s Women of Algiers,” by Joan DelPlato

    Structuralism, Semiotic Theory, and Iconographic Analysis

    Poststructuralism

    Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers, After Delacroix

    Assia Djebar’s Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

    Houria Niati’s No to Torture

    Shirin Neshat’s Rapture

    WORKS CITED AND SUGGESTED READING

    CONCLUSIONS TO PART III: RESEARCH AND CRITICAL METHODS

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