Reading Images provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples, Kress and van Leeunwen examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.
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"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
-Kevin G. Barnhurst, Syracuse University
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Gunther Kress is Professor of English and Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Theo van Leeuwen is now Principal Lecturer in Communication Theory at the London College of Printing.
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This is an interesting, engaging entry point into the analysis of visuals as communicative, or rhetorical, devices. Even ten years later, much of Kress and van Leeuwen's book is still relevant and easily extrapolated into the digital media. It provides, as a colleague of mine said, a useful toolbox for any critic.
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In the early years of schooling, children are constantly encouraged to produce images, and to illustrate their written work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Possessive Attributes, Women's Weekly, Sydney Morning Herald, Tate Gallery, Third World, Dick Bruna's On My Walk, Downs Syndrome, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Henry Moore, Symbolic Suggestive, Baby's First Book, Jan van Eyck, Minister of the Uniting Church, Ben Hur, Brett Whiteley, Glass Darkly, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Patrick White, Peter Nyangingu, Red Wedge, Special Mild, The Big Knife New!
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In the early years of schooling, children are constantly encouraged to produce images, and to illustrate their written work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Possessive Attributes, Women's Weekly, Sydney Morning Herald, Tate Gallery, Third World, Dick Bruna's On My Walk, Downs Syndrome, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Henry Moore, Symbolic Suggestive, Baby's First Book, Jan van Eyck, Minister of the Uniting Church, Ben Hur, Brett Whiteley, Glass Darkly, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Patrick White, Peter Nyangingu, Red Wedge, Special Mild, The Big Knife New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- On My Walk (Bruna Books) by Dick Bruna on 8 pages
- Course in General Linguistics (Open Court Classics) by Ferdinand de Saussure in Front Matter, page 161, and Back Matter
- Social Semiotics by Robert Hodge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- On the Farm (Bruna Books) by Dick Bruna on page 22, page 25, and page 140
- Gender Advertisements by Erving Goffman on page 65, and Back Matter
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- Introducing Social Semiotics: An Introductory Textbook by Theo van Leeuwen on 6 pages
- Discourse as Structure and Process (Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introductio) by Teun A. van Dijk on 5 pages
- The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology (PALA Papers 1) by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard on 5 pages
- Reading Contemporary Picturebooks: Picturing Text by David Lewis on 5 pages
- Reading Contemporary Picturebooks: Picturing Text by David Lewis on 5 pages
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