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Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art And Verbal Interventions
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Baylor Univ Pr
Publication date September 30, 2006
Pages 417
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781932792416
ISBN-10 1932792414
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight 1.90 lbs.
Original list price $49.95
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.

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9781932792416 | details & prices | 417 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $49.95
About: 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.

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