Visual Literacy

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.

Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415958110

About the Author

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, and What Painting Is and, most recently, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.