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For as long as there have been artists creating art, there have been writers creating a running narrative: What does art say about our world? What does it say about artists? What does it mean?

Writing About Visual Art offers a comprehensive examination of the history and practice of writing about art—from simple criticisms to encyclopedic histories—and reveals its importance to the art museum, the art gallery, and general aesthetic theory. Paying special attention to the historical and social frameworks of the writers, this guide offers a thorough study of the evolution and significance of art writing. With countless examples taken from virtually all eras of history, author David Carrier explains how many individual’s interpretations of artworks are inspired as much by what has been written about the work and the artist as by the artwork itself. He presents an in-depth comparison of the writing of critics against that of historians and puts forward a solid defense of the literature of art as a means for both understanding art and for promoting visual thinking.

Bursting with fresh insight and compelling text, this book ultimately embraces the writing about art not only as a tool for creating an interpretive community, but also as a key for promoting and supporting visual thinking. Copublished with the School of Visual Arts as part of the Aesthetics Today series.

* Offers a clear and sensible account of the history and practice of art writing, and how it promotes and supports visual thinking

* Links art writing to the museum, the gallery, and to theory, and examines its role with each

* Author is coeditor of CAA.Reviews, has published work in major art publications, and been interviewed on NPR

David Carrier is a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art and has been published in a wide range of periodicals, including Artforum and Art in America. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Book (Paperback), 6" x 9", 224 pages, March 2003

 

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