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Author: James Elkins (Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.700kg
ISBN: 9780415958110
ISBN 10: 0415958113
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 11 October 2007
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Visual Literacy brings intellectual rigor to a concept that often passes as an unexamined cliche. This collection of essays explores how well the metaphor of 'reading' elucidates the viewing and interpretation of images, whether artistic, political, or scientific. The volume will find its place on the bookshelves of both serious scholars of vision and instructors who rise to the challenge of integrating diverse visual artifacts into the undergraduate curriculum. -James D. Herbert, University of California, Irvine Given that much university education is dominantly and sometimes entirely text-based, the central issue of whether there can and ought to be a stronger emphasis on the visual is a valuable, challenging, perhaps even threatening one, for denizens of academia. --Margaret Woodward, Eureka Street
<p> Visual Literacy brings intellectual rigor to a concept that often passes as an unexamined clich?. This collection of essays explores how well the metaphor of ?reading? elucidates the viewing and interpretation of images, whether artistic, political, or scientific. The volume will find its place on the bookshelves of both serious scholars of vision and instructors who rise to the challenge of integrating diverse visual artifacts into the undergraduate curriculum. ?James D. Herbert, University of California, Irvine<p> Given that much university education is dominantly and sometimes entirely text-based, the central issue of whether there can and ought to be a stronger emphasis on the visual is a valuable, challenging, perhaps even threatening one, for denizens of academia. --Margaret Woodward, Eureka Street
Visual Literacy brings intellectual rigor to a concept that often passes as an unexamined cliche. This collection of essays explores how well the metaphor of 'reading' elucidates the viewing and interpretation of images, whether artistic, political, or scientific. The volume will find its place on the bookshelves of both serious scholars of vision and instructors who rise to the challenge of integrating diverse visual artifacts into the undergraduate curriculum. -James D. Herbert, University of California, Irvine Given that much university education is dominantly and sometimes entirely text-based, the central issue of whether there can and ought to be a stronger emphasis on the visual is a valuable, challenging, perhaps even threatening one, for denizens of academia. --Margaret Woodward, Eureka Street
<p> Visual Literacy brings intellectual rigor to a concept that often passes as an unexamined clich . This collection of essays explores how well the metaphor of reading elucidates the viewing and interpretation of images, whether artistic, political, or scientific. The volume will find its place on the bookshelves of both serious scholars of vision and instructors who rise to the challenge of integrating diverse visual artifacts into the undergraduate curriculum. James D. Herbert, University of California, Irvine<p> Given that much university education is dominantly and sometimes entirely text-based, the central issue of whether there can and ought to be a stronger emphasis on the visual is a valuable, challenging, perhaps even threatening one, for denizens of academia. --Margaret Woodward, Eureka Street
Visual Literacy brings intellectual rigor to a concept that often passes as an unexamined clich . This collection of essays explores how well the metaphor of reading elucidates the viewing and interpretation of images, whether artistic, political, or scientific. The volume will find its place on the bookshelves of both serious scholars of vision and instructors who rise to the challenge of integrating diverse visual artifacts into the undergraduate curriculum. James D. Herbert, University of California, Irvine Given that much university education is dominantly and sometimes entirely text-based, the central issue of whether there can and ought to be a stronger emphasis on the visual is a valuable, challenging, perhaps even threatening one, for denizens of academia. --Margaret Woodward, Eureka Street
Author Information
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.
