How to Write About Contemporary Art - Brossura

Williams, Gilda

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ISBN 10: 0500291578 ISBN 13: 9780500291573

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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With 'How To Write About Contemporary Art' Gilda Williams has created an illuminating, engaging and urgent guide to contemporary art-writing. While this is clearly essential reading for arts students and those at the start of a career in arts writing or criticism, it is equally invaluable for anyone involved in the art world that needs to transmit information and ideas in written form about contemporary art. So that's basically all of us. --Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-Director, Serpentine Gallery

Finally. A book that teaches you how to write and think clearly about art. I can imagine this book inspiriting future generations to write legibly and intelligently art criticism, a field that's become too hermetic and convoluted for its own good. Revolutionary, radical and long overdue. Bravo! --Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founder, UbuWeb

A rare guide to writing practice that's also a wonderfully engaging read in itself, Gilda Williams's 'How to Write about Contemporary Art' interweaves plainspoken advice on the practical nuts-and-bolts of art criticism with trenchant observations about the conditions of the profession, all delivered in the voice of a savvy, generous friend. With a long track record as both a writer for and editor at leading journals and publishing houses, Williams knows the field from both sides this valuable book engages not only the hows but, crucially, also the whys of art writing. --Jeff Kastner, Editor, Cabinet magazine

Bless you, Gilda Williams, for reminding us that fear is the root of bad writing, and for showing us how to take courage. Art writing can be deep, accurate, surprising, and even beautiful - and with any luck, 'How to Write about Contemporary Art' will spark a renascence of the deep, accurate, surprising, beautiful art writing we so badly need. --Barry Schwabsky, art critic, The Nation

Williams's methodology is flawless ... gives insight to the inner workings of very different industries: academia, auction houses and mainstream and professional press. --Frieze

Will become a standard text for anyone studying or interested in critical writing and the very vexed subject of 'writing about art'. --Michael Bracewell, critic and novelist

Applies lessons in graceful prose to the field of art writing ... Williams excels ... when giving nuts-and-bolts advice for crafting specific genres of art-world documents (catalogue essays, short news articles, academic essays, and the like). [This] how-to provides enough art-specific insights to cut through the garble so common in the field. --Publisher's Weekly

Fantastic ... a straight-forward must-read for every writer, reader, artist and designer. Williams holds your hand, explaining why you need to do it, what you need to do, and how to do it. --Fullscream.com

Thrillingly clear ... A beautifully formed guide to writing ... an incisive manual for clarity of thought. This guide could as easily apply to writing (and indeed thinking) on any creative endeavour ... Essential! --Dressing the Air.com

A thoroughly sensible and accessible guide to writing that could almost be applied to any subject. --ArtBookReview.net

Excellent ... You will long to push this book under the noses of your illiterate students or colleagues ... Where Williams excels is in the nitty-gritty of writing as a craft. Even if you are an experienced writer, Williams articulates what you know instinctively but have never been able to put your finger on. If you are a student or junior writer, this is like a series of one-to-one tutorials with a generous and committed tutor ... This is the little red book that everyone in the art world should have, not just students. --Art Monthly

Bless you, Gilda Williams, for reminding us that fear is the root of bad writing, and for showing us how to take courage. Art writing can be deep, accurate, surprising, and even beautiful--and with any luck, How to Write about Contemporary Art will spark a renascence of the deep, accurate, surprising, beautiful art writing we so badly need --Barry Schwabsky, art critic, The Nation

L'autore:

Gilda Williams is a London correspondent for Artforum and lecturer at Goldsmiths College and Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. From 1994 to 2005 she was Editor and then Commissioning Editor at Phaidon Press. She is a former managing editor at Flash Art International and her writing has appeared in Tate Etc., Parkett, Art Monthly, Art in America and Time Out. Williams is author of The Gothic (2007) and has contributed to catalogues for exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, the 48th Venice Biennale, and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Rotterdam, among others.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500291578
• ISBN 13: 9780500291573
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264