Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory: Revisiting the Disruptions of Visual Thinkers in Education and Beyond [Hardcover]

Introduction? 1.?Rudolf Arnheim: The Power of the Image? 2.?Vil?m Flusser: Play/Read/Write/See? 3. The Conspiracy of the Spectacle: Guy Debords Relevance for Visual Literacy Today? 4.?Fontcuberta and Postphotography: unveiling the border between fiction and reality? 5.?Literacy Foundations in June King McFees Art Education Philosophy? 6.?Visual Literacy Development through Picturebooks: The Contributions of John Warren Stewig? 7.?Abigail Housen: Visual Thinking from Museums to the Classroom? 8.?Unleashing Perception: Exploring Michael Matyushin's Expanded Vision? 9.?Thinking in pictures: Temple Grandin's contribution to Visual Literacy? 10.?David Howes: Pioneer of Sensory Studies? 11.?Nada Shabout: The Challenge of Visual Literacy in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art

This volume seeks to close the gap between education systems across the world that remain systematically devoted to understanding our world through text, rather than images.?

This volume seeks to close the gap between education systems across the world that remain systematically devoted to understanding our world through text rather than images.

Through an exploration of the contributions of well- and lesser-known visual thinkers from across disciplines and geographies, the contributors offer contemporary appraisals and modern re-conceptualizations of the subject. The book illuminates how experts from various disciplines ranging from art, communication, education, and philosophy laid the foundations for what we know today as visual literacy. These foundations and innovative ways of thinking and understanding images have been disruptive, but until now, have been relatively understudied. As such, the chapters examine the context of individual thinkers, expanding upon famous theories and providing new insight into why these visual and cognitil“!