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| Elements of Visual Analysis | |
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| Responding to Art: Visual Literacy and the Practice of Writing | |
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| Writing Assignment: Journal Responses to a Work of Art | |
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| Visual Memory and Visual Literacy | |
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| Observations and Questions | |
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| The Art History Context | |
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| Intertextuality | |
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| The Comparative Method | |
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| Medium | |
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| Genre | |
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| Iconography | |
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| Moving from Observation to Interpretation | |
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| Research and Connoisseurship | |
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| Works Cited and Suggested Reading | |
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| “Intelligent Seeing”: Description and Analysis of Form | |
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| Writing Assignment: Formal Analysis of a Work of Art | |
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| The Visual Elements | |
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| Line, Shape, Mass and Volume | |
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| Color and Value | |
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| Texture | |
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| Spatial Depth, Perspective, and Scale | |
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| Time and Motion | |
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| Principles of Design | |
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| Unity and Variety | |
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| Balance | |
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| Scale and Proportion | |
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| Rhythm, Movement and Tension | |
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| Using Description to Support a Thesis | |
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| Writing Formal Analyses | |
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| Reviewing and Revising Your Impressions | |
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| Works Cited and Suggested Reading | |
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| On Site: Art and Architecture in Social Contexts | |
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| Writing Assignment: Contextual Analysis of a Work of Art | |
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| Site as Context: The Rock Garden at Ryoan-ji | |
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| Subject Matter, Function, and Form: The Beaune Altarpiece | |
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| Historical Context: Main Entrance and Floorplan, | |
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| Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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| Patrons, Performers, and Audience: A Mende Helmet Mask | |
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| Works Cited and Suggested Reading | |
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| The Museum as Context: Display and Representation | |
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| Writing Assignment: Analysis of an Exhibition | |
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| Fine Art Display: A Mende Mask at the Metropolitan Museum | |
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| Formalist Display: Bamana Masks at the Barnes Foundation | |
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| Updated Ethnographic Display: A Baule Mask at the Museum for African Art | |
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| Artist’s Installation: Fred Wilson’s Installation at the Seattle Art Museum | |
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| Continuing Controversies | |
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| Writing Assignment: Position Paper on a Current Museum Controversy | |
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| What Is Exhibited? | |
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| Who Is Represented? | |
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| Who Owns the Object? | |
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| Works Cited and Suggested Reading | |
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| Conclusions to Part I: Elements of Visual Analysis | |
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| Essay Writing Strategies | |
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| Planning and Developing an Essay | |
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| Case Study: Contextual Analysis of a Work of Art | |
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| Recording Impressions | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Browsing: Conducting Preliminary Research | |
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| Narrowing the Topic and Formulating a Thesis | |
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| Outlining: Mapping Your Route through the Essay | |
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| Drafting the Essay | |
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| Composing an Introduction | |
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| Developing Conclusions | |
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| Student Essay: “Reading a Mughal Miniature,” by Mahwash Shoaib (MLA documentation style) | |
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| Incorporating Research in Your Essay | |
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| Structuring an Essay | |
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| Case Study: Formal Analysis and Comparison/Contrast | |
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| Student Essay: “The Private Made Public: Goya’s Josefa Castilla Portugal de Garcini y Wanabrok,” by Baz Dreisinger (Chicago Manual documentation style) | |
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| Linking with Transitional Words and Phrases | |
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| Structuring with Topic Sentences | |
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| Organizing Description and Formal Analysis | |
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| Structuring Comparison/Contrast | |
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| Unifying Verb Tense | |
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| Unifying Tone and Diction | |
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| Revising an Essay | |
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| Case Study: Exhibition Catalogue (A Group Project) | |
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| Re-examining the Thesis | |
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| Rewriting Paragraphs | |
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| Revising the Essay Structure | |
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| Reviewing Your Use of Sources | |
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| Revisiting Sentences | |
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| Editing an Essay: Grammar, Punctuation, Usage | |
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| Editing for Consistency | |
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| Subject/Pronoun Agreement | |
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| Subject/Verb Agreement | |
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| Parallel Structure | |
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| Reviewing Word Order | |
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| Misplaced Modifiers | |
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| Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Split Infinitives | |
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| Punctuation Problems and Solutions | |
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| Apostrophe for Possessives | |
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| Misused Commas | |
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| Usage: Commonly Confused Words | |
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| Manuscript Mechanics, from The Art Bulletin Style Guide | |
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| Titles | |
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| Numerals | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Spelling and Hyphenation | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Italics | |
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| Quotations | |
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| Usage | |
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| A Note on Captions | |
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| Conclusions to Part II: Essay Writing Strategies | |
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| Research and Critical Methods | |
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| Researching and Documenting an Essay | |
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| Case Study: Reception History of a Work of Art | |
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| Online Research | |
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| Visiting the Public Library Online | |
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| Primary and Secondary Sources | |
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| A Word of Caution on Using Internet Sources | |
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| Museum Web Sites | |
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| Using the Online Catalog in Your School Library | |
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| Searching the Stacks | |
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| Consulting Art Periodical Indices | |
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| The Art Index and the BHA | |
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| Locating Articles and Taking Notes | |
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| General Reference Works | |
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| Visiting Specialized Libraries | |
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| Documenting Sources | |
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| What to Document | |
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| Why and How to Document | |
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| Chicago Manual of Style Format | |
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| Footnotes and Endnotes | |
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| Footnote Citations for Books, Dissertations, and Theses | |
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| Footnote Citations for Articles in Journals and Newspapers | |
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| Footnote Citations for Interviews, Correspondence, and Internet Sources | |
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| Bibliography or Works Cited | |
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| Bibliographic Citations for Books, Dissertations, and Theses | |
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| Bibliographic Citations for Articles in Journals and Newspapers | |
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| Bibliographic Citations for E-Mail and Internet Sources | |
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| Art Bulletin Style | |
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| Text References, Footnotes, and Frequently Cited Sources | |
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| MLA Style | |
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| Critical Perspectives: On Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Eug�ne Delacroix | |
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| Case Study: Critical Approaches to a Work of Art Biographical Studies | |
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| From “The Life and Work of Eug�ne Delacroix,” by Charles Baudelaire | |
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| Psychoanalytic Approaches | |
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| Formalism | |
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| From Eug�ne Delacroix, by Barth�l�my Jobert | |
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| The Social History of Art | |
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| Marxist Theory | |
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| “About Critical Reception: Women of Algiers,” by V�ronique Chagnon-Burke | |
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| Gender Studies, Feminist Criticism, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Queer Theory | |
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| Postcolonial Theory | |
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| ‘Passivity and Politics in Delacroix’s Women of Algiers,” by Joan DelPlato | |
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| Structuralism, Semiotic Theory, and Iconographic Analysis | |
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| Poststructuralism | |
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| Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers, After Delacroix | |
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| Assia Djebar’s Women of Algiers in Their Apartment | |
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| Houria Niati’s No to Torture | |
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| Shirin Neshat’s Rapture | |
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| Works Cited and Suggested Reading | |
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| Conclusions to Part III: Research and Critical Methods | |