Visual Literacy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Elkins, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the developed West or in developing nations? This groundbreaking collection explores what impact the new concept of "visual literacy" has on art history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135905323
• Artikelnr.: 42724999

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Concept of Visual Literacy, and Its Limitations, James
Elkins
1. Visual Literacy, W.J.T. Mitchell
2. The Remaining 10%: The Role of Sensory Knowledge in the Age of the
Self-Organizing Brain, Barbara Stafford
3. Nineteenth-Century Visual Incapacities, Jonathan Crary
4. From Visual Literacy to Image Competence, Jon Simons
5. The Visual Complex: Mapping Some Interdisciplinary Dimensions Of Visual
Literacy, Peter Dallow
6. Visual Literacy in North American Secondary Schools, Susan Shifrin
7. Philosophical Bases for Visual Multiculturalism at the College Level,
William Washabaugh
8. Bridging the Gap Between Clinical and Patient-Provided Images, Henrik
Enquist
9. Visual Literacy in Action: Law in the Age of Images, Richard Sherwin
10. The Image as Cultural Technology, Matthias Bruhn and Vera Dünkel
Afterword, Christopher Crouch