Visual Literacy
What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become visually literate, what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding the visual, exploring national and regional ideas of visuality and charting out new territories of visual literacy that lie far beyond art history, such as law and chemistry. With an afterword by Christopher Crouch, this groundbreaking collection brings together the work of major art and visual studies scholars and critics to explore what impact the n…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-135-90533-0
- EAN: 9781135905330
- Produktnummer: 18432753
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'979 KB
- Abbildungen: 40 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
Über den Autor
James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, and What Painting Is and, most recently, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.
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