| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 1, 2009). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Visual literacy.
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Visual literacy. |
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Visual communication.
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Visual communication. |
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Visual perception.
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Visual perception. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Elkins, James, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Visual literacy. New York : Routledge, 2007 (DLC) 2007017432 |
| ISBN |
9780203939574 (electronic book) |
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0203939573 (electronic book) |
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9780415958103 (hardback) |
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9780415958110 (paperback) |
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0415958105 (hardback) |
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9780415958103 |
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0415958113 (paperback) |
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9780415958110 |
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