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Visual Literacy: Media Literacy

Areas to Explore

Interesting Centers, Series and Genres in Visual Studies

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art
Dialogues in art history, from Mesopotamian to modern : readings for a new century.  Published  Washington [D.C.]: National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, c2009.  N386.U5 S78 v.74

 

Interfaces, studies in visual culture.
Golec, Michael J.  The Brillo box archive : aesthetics, design, and art.   Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2008. 

 

Subject Headings

SUBJECT HEADINGS USEFUL FOR BOOKS ON VISUAL LITERACY

Subject Heading: Arts and Society
example:

The art of evolution : Darwin, Darwinisms, and visual culture / edited by Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer.   Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2009.  Lilly Library:
NX180.S3 A772 2009  


Subject Heading: Mass media and literature.  
example:
Writing and the image today. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

 

Subject Heading:  Motion pictures -- Semiotics.
example:
Feldges, Benedikt. American icons : the genesis of a national visual language.  New York : Routledge, 2008. 

 

Subject Heading:  Art--Research
example:

What is research in the visual arts? : obsession, archive, encounter / edited by Michael Ann Holly and Marquard Smith. 
 Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press, c2008.

 

Subject Heading: Visual literacy.
example: 
Visual literacy / edited by James Elkins. 
Published  New York : Routledge, c2008. 

 

Subject Heading: Visual communication.  

 


Subject Heading: Visual perception. 
 

Subject Guide

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