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    1. Jules Prown

      https://arthistory.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/228x269/public/pictures/picture-82-1443720101.jpg Jules David Prown, a graduate of Lafayette College and of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (University of Delaware), received his doctorate from Harvard University. He has been a member of the faculty of the Department of the History of Art since 1961 and is currently the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Art. During this period he has also been Curator of American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and the founding Director of the Yale Center for British Art. He has received numerous professional and other honors including the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association of America (1995), Yale’s William Clyde DeVane Award for teaching and scholarship, and Distinguished Scholar at the 2010 College Art Association Annual Conference. Professor Prown has served on a number of editorial and other boards including the Board of Governors of Yale University Press and the Board of Governors of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) as well as the Board of Trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art. source (https://arthistory.yale.edu/people/jules-prown)

    2. Prownian analysis

      Prownian Analysis is a means of identifying, and examining objects through detailed physical description, guessing at uses of the object, and treating the object as a fiction as a way of relating the object to more broad concepts. By applying Prownian Analysis to the examination of an object, the examiner should end with a rich description of the object, as well as a vivid idea of why the object was produced, and for whom. source (https://gregcotter.wordpress.com/prownian-analysis-2/)

    3. The supplement reading I chose is The secret to a good writing its about objects not ideas. This reading talks about how students don't know how to write and when the professor actually tries to help he tell them to be specific in their writings to write physically with physical objects which is something Kenneth Haltman talk about in his reading "The key to good description is a rich, nuanced vocabulary. Technically accurate language (nominative, for the most part) plays an important role in this, but ultimately not the most important role which is reserved, per-haps somewhat counter-inruitively, to descriptive modifiers (adjectives) and, most crucially, to terms expressive of the dynamics of interrelation (verbs, adverbs, prepositions)". But then Bernadette another teacher disagree with him and told him that only ideas matter when writing, "Getting them to define and handle ideas is what's important, not things." In the 10th paragraph, at first I disagreed with the author when he stated that "... all abstract ideas derive from objects." because when defining an abstract idea it is a concept that needs to be vizualized, they cant be illustrated through concrete examples, it refers to the ideas which are not concerned with worldly things. For example education, knowledge, happiness, cowardice, freedom, self expression, peace of mind. They are the things that you cannot touch but you can feel them.Looking at this picture right there in this link (https://www.viewbug.com/contests/abstract-ideas-photo-contest/4607259) How would you describe this abstract picture? it is something someone drew from their mind and i am pretty sure only the person who drew this can tell the meaning and give you an idea of what this is. But then when I kept reading the way he say that we could describe and use those abstract ideas by using objects related to it.

    4. Concrete noun can be identified through one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, or smell). so that's why he answered the student that way when they ask him what a concrete noun was in the supplement text " The secret to good writing: its about objects not ideas." source (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/concrete-vs-abstract-nouns/)

    5. The fruits of one's research are not co he presented as some-how self-explanatory, but rather as evidence introduced in support of claims. The object, in other words, must not be seen as a good illustration of something outside of itself-an historical milieu, for instance, or maker's intent-but rather such contextual phenomena be introduced into evidence as illuminating some aspect of the object's own intrinsic interest or mean-ing.

      Adding evidence to ones writing is one of the best way to support you claims and it is something that most student fail to do when writing a paper. source (https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/get-assistance/writing/writing-disciplines/using-evidence-effectively)

    6. Interpretive analysis

      Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an approach to psychological qualitative research with an idiographic focus, which means that it aims to offer insights into how a given person, in a given context, makes sense of a given phenomenon. source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretative_phenomenological_analysis)

    7. Rather than saying what a visual image means, description tells us how an image has opened itself up to an interpretation.

      Anyone can try to describe an object, thing or person but if you don't be specific no one will understand or will know what you are talking about. For example, if you were to describe a cat you can't just say that it has 4 legs, it has fur, two eyes you will need to add more descriptions to this because there are plenty of animals with fur, four legs and two eyes. when you give a good description the person can visualize it better. Just like he stated on " The key to a good description is a rich, nuance vocabulary."

    8. Imbue

      to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, source (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/imbue?s=t)

    9. The key to good description is a rich, nuanced vocabulary. Technically accurate language (nominative, for the most part) plays an important role in this, but ultimately not the most important role which is reserved, per-haps somewhat counter-inruitively, to descriptive modifiers (adjectives) and, most crucially, to terms expressive of the dynamics of mterrelation (verbs, adverbs, prepositions).

      I totally agree with the author in that part but it is also the key to becoming a good writer. Without vocabulary one would not be able to write, they would not find the word to describe an object for one to understand.