Key Texts
Elkins, James. Visual Literacy. Lilly and Perkins LB1068.V567 2008
A discussion by the enfant terrible of art on looking.
Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989. Lilly Library N71 .F65 1989
Art historical. One of the early theorist to look at pictures qua images.
Howells, Richard. Visual culture. Cambridge, UK: Polity/Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2003. Perkins/Bostock Library LB1068 .S4613 2006
Jones, Caroline A., and Peter Galison, eds. Picturing Science, Producing Art. London: Routledge, 1998.
Early theoretics on scientific looking and art.
Mitchell, W. J. Thomas. What Do Pictures Want?: the Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Lilly Library N7565 .M523 2005
A classic in looking at images as a driving force in motivation.
Rose, Gillian. Visual methodologies : an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2001. Perkins/Bostock P93.5 .R67 2001
Seppänen, Janne. The power of the gaze : an introduction to visual literacy. New York : P. Lang, 2006. Perkins/Bostock LB1068 .S4613 2006
Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Readers
A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century. Oxford & New York: Berg, 2010. NX 180.S6 H57 2010
Essay on Looking and how images affected history.
The Visual Culture Reader. Nicholas Mirzoeff. 2nd ed. London : Routledge, 2002. Lilly NX458 .V58 2002
Images: a Reader. Sunil Manghani, Arthur Piper and Jon Simons. London : SAGE, 2006. Lilly HM621 .I53 2006
