Visual literacy / edited by James Elkins.

Other author Elkins, James, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, ©2008.
Descriptionviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Visual literacy or literary visualcy? -- Four fundamental concepts of image science / W.J.T. Mitchell -- The remaining 10% : the role of sensory knowledge in the age of the self-organizing brain / Barbara 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 Denkel -- Visual literacy in action : law in the age of images / Richard Sherwin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007017432
ISBN0415958105 (hbk.)
ISBN9780415958103 (hbk.)
ISBN0415958113 (pbk.)
ISBN9780415958110 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks LB1068 .V567 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner General Stacks LB1068 .V567 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold