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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Elkins |
| ISBN: | 0415958105 9780415958103 0415958113 9780415958110 |
| OCLC Number: | 124039134 |
| Description: | viii, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Visual literacy or literary visualcy? -- Four fundamental concepts of image science / W.J.T. Mitchell -- The remaining 10 percent : the role of sensory knowledge in the age of the self-organizing brain / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Nineteenth-century visual incapacities / Jonathan Crary -- From visual literacy to image competence / Jon Simons -- The visual complex : mapping some interdisciplinary dimensions of visual literacy / Peter Dallow -- Visual literacy in North American secondary schools : arts-centered learning, the classroom, and visual literacy / Susan Shifrin -- Philosophical bases for visual multiculturalism at the college level / William Washabaugh -- Bridging the gap between clinical and patient-provided images / Henrik Enquist -- The image as cultural technology / Matthias Bruhn and Vera Dunkel -- Visual literacy in action : "law in the age of images" / Richard K. Sherwin. |
| Responsibility: | edited by James Elkins. |
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<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 Read more...
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