DIGITAL ART reviews only
you will read two online articles about the academic practice of writing book reviews. You will then search out two published book reviews and analyze the way they are written to help you understand the structure and content of what is included in a book review. You will write brief analyses of each review and upload them here in one document.
Assignment Rationale
Critical reading as an essential skill as an art historian. As you prepare to write your thesis, you will need to access and synthesize a large quantity of scholarship to understand the state of the field into which you are inserting your argument. Reading a published book and writing a review will help you learn the field of digital art in greater depth, and also equip you with essential skills that you will need in graduate school and beyond.
What is a book review?
In preparation to write your own book review, it will first be helpful to learn what is involved in a book review, and to read reviews written by other scholars.
To complete this assignment, you will first read the following two articles about academic book reviews:
o https://clas.uiowa.edu/history/teaching-and-writing-center/guides/book-review (Links to an external site.)
o https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2015/03/27/essay-writing-academic-book-reviews (Links to an external site.)
These readings discuss the basic structure and content that should be included in a book review, and I will use the criteria outlined each when I evaluate the final draft of your review. I therefore expect you to refer to these articles as you write your book review analyses and book review.
Book Review Analyses
After completing your reading assignment, you will write two short reviews, each analyzing a different published book review. You may select any review published in Art Bulletin since 1990 for your analysis. in the digital art space. With the criteria for a book review from the above articles in might, write an approximately 300 word analysis that examines the structure, strengths, and/or weaknesses of each review. This activity is NOT meant for you to just summarize the content of the book reviewed by the author. Instead, you should focus on the structure of the book review itself. What did the review do well? Did it provide a thorough overview of the book it reviews? How did the author organize their review, and how did they discuss the organization of the book they discuss? After reading the review, do you have a clear sense of the argument, strengths, and weaknesses of the book under review? Can you extrapolate a format or structure to organizing a book review that you can implement in your own review?
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