Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1932792414
ISBN13:9781932792416
Release Date:September 2006
Publisher:Baylor University Press
Length:437 Pages
Weight:1.91 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.4"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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