Cultivating picturacy
Subtitle: visual art and verbal interventions
By: James A. W. Heffernan.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781932792416
Subjects: Visual communication
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: Literacy and picturacy: how do we learn to read pictures?; title: Speaking for pictures: the rhetoric of art criticism; title: Alberti on Apelles: word and image in De Pictura; title: Text and design: Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience; title: Marginal language: word and image in Blake's Visions of the daughters of Albion; title: Painting against poetry: Reynolds's Discourses and the discourse of Turner's art; title: Wordsworth, Constable, and the poetics of chiaroscuro; title: Self-representation in Byron's poetry and Turner's art; title: Looking at the monster: Frankenstein and film; title: Love, death, and grotesquerie: Beardsley's illustrations of Wilde and Pope; title: Hockney remakes Hogarth: a gay rake progresses to America; title: Peter Milton's turn: an American printmaker marks the end of a millennium; title: Reza, Pollock, Richter: language and abstract art.