Visual Arts: Getting Started with Your Research

This straightforward guide prepares students to describe, interpret, and write about works of art in meaningful and lasting terms. For beginners as well as more advanced students.

David Carrier examines the history and practice of art writing and reveals its importance to the art museum, the art gallery, and aesthetic theory.

Here is an indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism.

Ideal for students, picture researchers, and enthusiasts of all kinds. It provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal ranging across painting, sculpture, drawing, and the applied arts from classical times to the present.