This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.Features of this fully updated second edition include:
new material on moving images and on coloura discussion of how images and their uses have changed through timewebsites and web-based imagesideas on the future of visual communication.
Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images and makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts.
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Provides a comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. This book examines the ways in which images communicate meaning. It features material on moving images and on colour, a discussion of how images and their uses have changed through time, websites and web-based images, and ideas on the future of visual communication.
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Introduction 1. The Semiotic Landscape 2. Narrative Representations: Designing Social Action 3. Conceptual Representations: Designing Social Constructs 4. Representation and Interaction: Designing the Position of the Viewer 5. Morality: Designing Models of Reality 6. The Meaning of Composition 7. The Materiality of Meaning - Surface and Inscription 8. The Third Dimension
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Praise for the first edition:
'Reading Images is the most important book in visual communication since Jacques Bertin's Semiology of Information Graphics. It is both thorough and thought-provoking; a remarkable breakthrough.' - Kevin G. Barnhurst, Syracuse University, USA
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415319140
Publisert
2006-03-30
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
839 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, U, UU, UP, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
312