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Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
Cultivating Picturacy Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
Author: James A. W. Heffernan
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 Ge...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781932792416
ISBN-10: 1932792414
Publication Date: 9/30/2006
Pages: 417
Edition: New title
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Publisher: Baylor University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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