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9780415319157

Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415319157

  • ISBN10:

    0415319153

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2006-05-12
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Imagesbuilds 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 colour a discussion of how images and their uses have changed through time websites and web-based images ideas on the future of visual communication. Reading Imagesfocuses 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.

Author Biography

Gunther Kress is Professor of English at the Institute of Education, University of London Theo van Leeuwen is currently Dean at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney

Table of Contents

Preface to the second editionp. vii
Preface to the first editionp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. xi
Introduction: the grammar of visual designp. 1
The semiotic landscape: language and visual communicationp. 16
Narrative representations: designing social actionp. 45
Conceptual representations: designing social constructsp. 79
Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewerp. 114
Modality: designing models of realityp. 154
The meaning of compositionp. 175
Materiality and meaningp. 215
The third dimensionp. 239
Colourful thoughts (a postscript)p. 266
Referencesp. 271
Indexp. 287
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