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Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
James A. W. Heffernan
Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
James A. W. Heffernan
Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using a range of examples, the volume illustrates how learning to decode the language of pictures resembles the process of learning to read.
430 pages, 17 colour plates, 79 b&w photos
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 25, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9781932792416 |
Publishers | Baylor University Press |
Pages | 437 |
Dimensions | 160 × 234 × 35 mm · 866 g |
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