Visual literacy /
Contributor(s): Elkins, James.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2008Description: viii, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415958103; 9780415958103:; 0415958105; 0415958113; 9780415958110.Subject(s): Visual literacy -- Visual communication | Visual literacy -- Congresses | Visual perception![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the concept of visual literacy and its limitations / James Elkins -- 1 : visual literacy or literary visualcy? / W.J.T. Mitchell -- 2 : the remaining 10 percent : the role of sensory knowledge in the age of the self-organizing brain / Barbara Maria Stafford -- 3 : nineteenth-century visual incapacities / Johnathan Crary -- 4 : from visual literacy to image competence / Jon Simons -- 5 : the visual complex : mapping some interdisciplinary dimensions of visual literacy / Peter Dallow -- 6 : visual literacy in North American secondary schools : arts-centered learning, the classroom and visual literacy / Susan Shifrin -- 7 : philosphical bases for visual multiculturalism at the college level / Wiiliam Washabaugh -- 8 : bridging the gap between clinical and patient-provided images / Henrik Enquist -- 9 : the image as cultural technology / Matthias Bruhn and Vera Dünkel -- 10 : visual literacy in action : "Law in the Age of Images" / Richard K. Sherwin -- Afterword / Christopher Crouch -- Photo credits -- Index.
This collection brings together the work of major visual studies critics including W.J.T. Mitchell, Barbara Stafford, Jonathan Crary and James Elkins to explore what impact the new concept of 'visual literacy' will have on the traditional field of art history.