Art Connections Second Edition

Art Connections Second Edition continues to build senior students’ skills as art critics and links the artwork they study to their own work.
contemporary artworks
resource lists
student writing
margin text with key points
a guide to art sites on the Internet and to electronic media resources
worksheets on historical, social and cultural analysis
examples of art created through new technologies.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Analysing artworks
Analysis is different from looking
Taking time to look at artworks
Why analyse artworks?
Planning to analyse artworks
Four different plans for analysing artworks
Art criticism: four stage plan
Using the four stage plan for analysis
Example of an analysis of an artwork by a student
Example of analytical writing by a curator of artworks
Analysing artworks to focus on personal response
Using personal response for analysis
Analysing three-dimensional artworks: sculptures, assemblages, fabrications
Example of student writing about a three-dimensional artwork
Analysing artworks designed for a purpose or function
Analysing film and video clips
Using personal response to write about a film or video clip
Analysing photographs
The importance of context in the process of analysis
Analysing artworks from a historical perspective
An example of writing using the historical analysis plan
Analysing artworks from a social and cultural perspective
Putting your analysis to work
Developing skills of analysis
Part 2: Artwords
Make your own list of artwords
Artforms
Art media: materials, techniques and tools
Subject matter
Artwords that help you respond to the aesthetic qualities of artworks
Part 3: Talking and writing about artworks
Why talk and write about artworks?
Talking and writing are different
Talking about artworks
Writing about artworks
Part 4: Researching artists and artworks
The research process
Approaches to research
Conclusion
Appendix
Index.