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an introduction to understanding images

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Mayfield Pub. Co.
Language
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Pages
222

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Criticizing photographs: an introduction to understanding images
2000, Mayfield Pub. Co.
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Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images
July 9, 1999, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1.
About Art Criticism --
Defining Criticism --
Sources of Criticism --
Kinds of Criticism --
The Backgrounds of Critics --
Stances Toward Criticism --
Relations Between Critics and Artists --
Criticizing Criticism --
The Value of Criticism -- -- Chapter 2.
Describing Photographs --
Defining Description --
Descriptions of Avedon's "In the American West" --
Describing Subject Matter --
Describing Form --
Describing Medium --
Describing Style --
Comparing and Contrasting --
Internal and External Sources of Information --
Description and Interpretation --
Description and Evaluation --
The Importance of Description to Readers -- -- Chapter 3.
Interpreting Photographs --
Defining Interpretation --
The Objects of Interpretations --
Interpretive Claims and Arguments --
Interpretive Perspectives --
Three Interpretations of Eleanor --
Other Interpretive Strategies --
Combinations of Interpretive Approaches --
"Right" Interpretations --
Interpretations and the Artist's Intent --
Interpretations and Feelings --
Interpretation, Meaning, and Personal Significance --
The Community of Interpreters -- -- Chapter 4.
Types of Photographs --
Categories of Photographs --
New Categories --
Descriptive Photographs --
Fxplanatory Photographs --
Interpretive Photographs --
Ethically Evaluative Photographs --
Aesthetically Evaluative Photographs --
Theoretical Photographs -- -- Chapter 5.
Photographs and Contexts --
Internal Context --
Original Context --
External Context --
External Contexts and Connotations --
Interpreting Barbara Kruger's Untitled ("Surveillance"), with Contextual Information --
"Surveillance" and Internal Context --
"Surveillance" and Original Context --
"Surveillance" and External Context --
Barbara Kruger's Untitled ("Surveillance"), and the Categories --
Descriptive Photographs --
Explanatory Photographs --
Interpretive Photographs --
Ethically Evaluative PHotographs --
Aesthetically Evaluative Photographs --
Theoretical Photographs --
The Interpretive Process: A Summary -- -- Chapter 6.
Evaluating Photographs --
Examples of Judgments --
Judgments and Reasons --
Judgments and Criteria --
Different Criteria --
Realism --
Expressionism --
Formalism --
Instrumentalism --
Other Criteria --
Choosing Among Criteria --
Differing Judgments --
Judgments Are Arguments --
Reappraisals --
Judgments and Preferences --
Intentionalism and Judgments --
The Objects of Judgments --
Judgments of Robert Mapplethorpe's Photographs --
Hilton Kramer's and Grace Glueck's Views of Mapplethorpe's Work --
Other Critics' Views of Mapplethorpe's Work -- -- Chapter 7.
Theory: Is It Art? --
Aesthetic Theory --
Theories and Critics --
Theories and Photographers --
Theories and Historians --
Theories and Curators --
A Survey of Theoretical Positions --
Realism and Conventionalism --
Modernism and Postmodernism --
Marxist Theory and Criticism --
Feminist Theory and Criticism -- -- Chapter 8.
Writing and Talking About Photographs --
Writing About Photographs --
Observing the Work and Taking Notes --
An Interpretive Paper --
An Evaluative Paper --
The Process of Writing --
Talking About Photographs --
Discussions of Art in the Presence of the Artist --
Studio Critiques

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-204) and index.

Published in
Mountain View, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
770/.1
Library of Congress
TR642 .B365 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 222 p. :
Number of pages
222

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24768276M
Internet Archive
criticizingphoto00barr
ISBN 10
0767411862
ISBN 13
9780767411868
LCCN
99026895
OCLC/WorldCat
41090833

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