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Learning to See: the Meanings, Modes and Methods of Visual Literacy

By Michael Heitkemper-Yates; Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2019
ISBN
9781848883024, 9789004374294
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20020084 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
290\290
Time added
2023-08-31 17:57:51
SOC022000; SOC026000

Description

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. If, indeed, 'Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others,' as Jonathan Swift has so famously phrased it, then visual literacy is the art of translating the seen - through image, word and gesture - so that the invisible can be made visible to others. In other words, visual literacy specifies a process of articulation that employs both sight and insight in the service of interpreting the language of the image, reading the narrative of the graphic, and deciphering the codes and modes of the visual. This volume represents an attempt to convey some of the many ideas surrounding visual literacy and advance the interdisciplinary field of visual literacy studies toward new areas of research and inquiry.

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