Visual Literacy
by James Elkins 
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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 show more afterword by Christopher Crouch, this groundbreaking collection brings together the work of major art and vis show lessTags
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Way too *A*cademic for me. I am capable of deciphering it, but have insufficient motivation... Glancing through, it seems over-engineered. Of course modern cultures are more visual, as we have more means of transmitting images, so of course students should be offered more visual modes of transmission of knowledge - not just text/ words. There must be more here... for those ivory tower types, anyway.
Not what I expected so I decided not to worry about it
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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, Stories of Art, Visual Studies, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?, Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts, On the Strange Place of Religion in show more Contemporary Art, and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge. He is editor of Art History Versus Aesthetics, Photography Theory, Landscape Theory, The State of Art Criticism, and Visual Literacy, all published by Routledge. show less
James Elkins is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Nonfiction, Art & Design, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 370.15 — Society, government, & culture Education Education Theory of education; Meaning; Aim Psychology applied to education
- LCC
- LB1068 .V567 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education Educational psychology
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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