Visual literacy
By: edited by Jim Elkins.
Contributors: Elkins, James, 1955-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780415958103; 9780415958110
Subjects: Visual literacy; Visual communication; Visual perception
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visual literacy or literary visualcy? and four fundamental concepts of image science / W.J.T. Mitchell; title: The remaining 10% : the role of sensory knowledge in the age of the self-organizing brain / Barbara Stafford; title: Nineteenth-century visual incapacities / Jonathan Crary; title: From visual literacy to image competence / Jon Simons; title: The visual complex : mapping some interdisciplinary dimensions of visual literacy / Peter Dallow; title: Visual literacy in north american secondary schools : arts-centered learning, the classroom, and visual literacy / Susan Shifrin; title: Philosophical bases for visual multiculturalism at the college level / William Washabaugh; title: Bridging the gap between clinical and patient-provided images / Henrik Enquist; title: The image as cultural technology / Matthias Bruhn and Vera Denkel; title: Visual literacy in action : law in the age of images / Richard Sherwin.