Writing About Visual Art (Aesthetics Today)
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: March 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781581152616
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Theory of art; Writing & editing guides; Description (Rhetoric); Authorship; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Graphic Arts - General; Composition & Creative Writing - Nonfiction; Criticism; Art / Criticism; Language Arts & Disciplines : Composition & Creative Writing - Nonfiction; Art criticism
First sentence: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Description: "David Carrier examines the history and practice of art writing and reveals its importance to the art museum, the art gallery, and aesthetic theory. Artists, art historians, and art lovers alike can gain fresh insight into how written descriptions of painting and sculpture affect the experience of art. Readers will learn how their reading can determine the way they see painting and sculpture, how interpretations of art transform meaning and significance, and how much-discussed work becomes difficult to see afresh."--Jacket.