“With the increasing globalization of artistic discourses and the corresponding need to translate ideas and practices in diverse cultural contexts, this guide will be an extremely valuable resource.”
Gunalan Nadarajan, University of Michigan
From the Inside Flap
This comprehensive new guide offers the growing numbers of international students undertaking courses in art and design help with the subject’s English-language lexicon. Drawing on the authors’ long experience of teaching and working with international students, this guide has been tailored specifically to their needs and features clear explanations of the specialist vocabulary in art and design that they must master if they are to fulfil their academic potential. Color-coded for ease of reference, the guide also covers art history and theory, and includes details on the pedagogy and academic requirements and methodologies of art and design courses in the West. A further section on academic resources includes an exhaustive list of publications, journals, websites, and galleries.
As well as offering a vital, much-requested fresh resource for students for whom English is a non-native language, this new publication is an ideal handbook for curators and professionals working in galleries and art museums who wish to familiarize themselves with English-language phraseology in art, design, and media.
From the Back Cover
This comprehensive new guide offers the growing numbers of international students undertaking courses in art and design help with the subject’s English-language lexicon. Drawing on the authors’ long experience of teaching and working with international students, this guide has been tailored specifically to their needs and features clear explanations of the specialist vocabulary in art and design that they must master if they are to fulfil their academic potential. Color-coded for ease of reference, the guide also covers art history and theory, and includes details on the pedagogy and academic requirements and methodologies of art and design courses in the West. A further section on academic resources includes an exhaustive list of publications, journals, websites, and galleries.
As well as offering a vital, much-requested fresh resource for students for whom English is a non-native language, this new publication is an ideal handbook for curators and professionals working in galleries and art museums who wish to familiarize themselves with English-language phraseology in art, design, and media.
About the Author
Annie Makhoul is head of the Department for International Studies at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. Dr. Makhoul has been working with international students, particularly from Asia, for a decade and is responsible for the development of Winchester School of Art’s international program.
Simon Morley is Visiting Fellow in the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK, and Assistant Professor at Dankook University, South Korea. A former Course Leader of the MA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, and lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute, Dr. Morley is a celebrated artist, writer, and lecturer who has exhibited his work internationally and is the author of Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art (2003), and editor of The Sublime: Documents in Contemporary Art (2010). His writings and reviews have appeared in such publications as Third Text, Art Monthly, Tate Magazine, and The Independent on Sunday.
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