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Author(s): Gilda Williams
ISBN(s): 9780500291573, 0500291578
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.08 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0500291578
ISBN 13: 9780500291573
Author: Gilda Williams

An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary art How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece to its tone and language. Brimming with practical tips that range across the complete spectrum of art-writing, the second part of the book is organized around its specific forms, including academic essays; press releases and news articles; texts for auction and exhibition catalogues, gallery guides and wall labels; op-ed journalism and exhibition reviews; and writing for websites and blogs. In counseling the reader against common pitfalls—such as jargon and poor structure—Gilda Williams points instead to the power of close looking and research, showing how to deploy language effectively; how to develop new ideas; and how to construct compelling texts. More than 30 illustrations throughout support closely analysed case studies of the best writing, in Source Texts by 64 authors, including Claire Bishop, Thomas Crow, T.J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Dave Hickey, John Kelsey, Chris Kraus, Rosalind Krauss, Stuart Morgan, Hito Steyerl, and Adam Szymczyk. Supplemented by a general bibliography, advice on the use and misuse of grammar, and tips on how to construct your own contemporary art library, How to Write About Contemporary Art is the essential handbook for all those interested in communicating about the art of today.

How to Write About Contemporary Art 1st Table of contents:

1. There is no single ‘best’ way to write about art
2. ‘International Art English’
3. Anyone can learn to write competently about art
Section One: The Job: Why Write about Contemporary Art?
1. Explaining v. evaluating
2. Art-words and artworks
3. Artist/dealer/curator/critic/blogger/‘Kunstworker’/journalist/historian
4. Out of the blue: where art-criticism came from
5. Art-writing sans frontières
Section Two: The Practice: How to Write About Contemporary Art
1. ‘Fear is the root of bad writing’
The first time you write about art
‘The baker’s family who have just won the big lottery prize’
The three jobs of communicative art-writing
2. How to substantiate your ideas
Provide factual or historical evidence
Extract visual evidence
Pay attention
Follow your thinking
3. The audience: grounding specialists and non-specialists
4. Practical ‘how-to’s
Be specific
Do not ‘explain’ a dense, abstract idea with another dense, abstract idea
Load your text with solid nouns
Adjectives: pick one
Gorge on the wildest variety of strong, active verbs
‘The road to hell is paved with adverbs.’
Order information logically
Organize your thoughts into complete paragraphs
Avoid lists
Avoid jargon
When in doubt, tell a story
When still in doubt, make a comparison
Simile and metaphor: use with caution
Final tips
Section Three: The Ropes: How to Write Contemporary Art Formats
1. How to write an academic essay
Getting started
The research question
Structure
‘Do’s and ‘don’t’s
Further tips
2. ‘Explaining’ texts
How to write a short news article
How to write a short descriptive text
How to write a press release
How to write an auction catalogue entry
3. ‘Evaluating’ texts
How to write an exhibition review for a magazine or blog
How to write a review for a newspaper
How to write a book review
How to write op-ed art journalism
How to write a catalogue essay or magazine article
4. How to write an artist’s statement
The ten most common pitfalls (and how to avoid them)
How to write about a single artwork
5. Writing formats compared: one artist, many writers
Conclusion
How to read about contemporary art
Notes
Resources
Rules of grammar (and when to break them)
Beginning a contemporary art library
Bibliography and e-sources

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