- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 3 edition (1 Feb 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0073379190
- ISBN-13: 978-0073379197
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.5 x 1 cm
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Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary takes readers inside the world of contemporary art and shows them how to think, write, and talk about art. Throughout, the principles of art criticism are presented and applied to contemporary forms of American art giving students of art and art history a solid framework for critically considering contemporary art through describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing.
About the Author
Terry Barrett is a Professor of Art Education at Ohio State University. He holds M.A. and Ph.D degrees from Ohio State University in Art Education with a concentration in Photography. He is the author of Criticizing Photographs, of Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, of Talking about Student Art, and the editor of a volume entitled Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism. He has also served as the senior editor of the research journal, Studies in Art Education. Professor Barrett has been a Visiting Scholar to The Getty Educational Institute for the Arts in Los Angeles, CA and a Visiting Scholar of Education at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
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A straight-forward introduction to art criticism, 6 Mar 2001
By Reto Zoppi Deiss - Published on Amazon.com
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A wonderful book. Boy, i was dragged through galleries and museums by my parents throughout the 60's and 70's, seeing things I thought interesting, some beautiful, some scary, some outright nonsensical. I never got to understand nothing, though I felt the impact of "the better stuff". Mr. Barrett does a wonderful job in being sincere and easy to understand as he, with impressively up-to-date examples, puts forth the meaning behind those formulae of formalism, modernism, post-modernism and the like. He carefully introduces techniques of criticism which are acknowledged as "best practices", but always underlines that other avenues will take us to excellence, too. I definitely appreciate what he covers under the "feminism" and "multiculturism" headlines, cos when we get to see it, we rarely have the nomenclatura to understand it properly. This is not just a book for someone who in earnest wants to make a living off "criticizing art", but for anyone young (in mind) enough to set out on the adventure to enjoy, understand and recommend contemporary art with some kind of vision for the betterment of mankind. The art, Mr. Barrett tells us, is all there - it's now up to us to make something with it.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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review, 28 Mar 2009
By J. Beck - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary (Paperback)
I am a high school art teacher. This book has been very helpful to me, in that I better understand the criteria for theories in contemporary art and I am better able to communicate the criteria to my students. It's an easy and interesting read.
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Art Criticism, 23 Jan 2011
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This book is very useful in my Art in Society class. Although most of the class was discussion and opinion, this text provides a surface and ground for these artistic conversations.
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