Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions - Hardcover
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Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions - Hardcover
$80.98
by James A. W. Heffernan (Author)
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 examples such as the pre-historic cave paintings of Lascaux, film versions of Frankenstein, the provocative photographs of Sally Mann, and the abstract canvases of Gerhard Richter, the volume illustrates how learning to decode the language of pictures resembles the process of learning to read. While words typically frame and regulate our experience of art, the study also explains how pictures can contest the authority of the words we use to interpret art.
Front Jacket
Examines the relationship between image and word.
Author Biography
James A. W. Heffernan (Ph.D. Princeton) is Emeritus Professor of English at Dartmouth College.
Number of Pages: 437
Dimensions: 1.32 x 9.4 x 6.18 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 25, 2006
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