Language In The Visual Arts

Author : Leslie Ross
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616256
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language in the Visual Arts written by Leslie Ross and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses text and image relationships in the history of art from ancient times to the contemporary period across a diversity of cultures and geographic areas. Focusing on the use of words in art and words as art forms, thematic chapters include "Pictures in Words/Words in Pictures," "Word/Picture Puzzles," "Picture/Word Puzzles," "Words as Images," "The Power of the Word," and "Monumental and Moving Words." Chapter subsections further explore cross-cultural themes. Examining text and image relationships from the obvious to the elusive, the puzzling to the profound, the minor to the major, the book demonstrates the diverse ways in which images and writing have been combined through the ages, and explores the interplay between visual and written communication in a wide range of thought-provoking examples. A color insert is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN 13 : 1350240575
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visual Language written by David Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised, second edition develops the creative principles established in the first edition, building particularly on three-dimensional forms, featuring a large number of new images.

Author : Connie Malamed
Publisher : Rockport Pub
ISBN 13 : 1592537413
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Language for Designers written by Connie Malamed and published by Rockport Pub. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within every picture is a hidden language that conveys a message, whether it is intended or not. This language is based on the ways people perceive and process visual information. By understanding visual language as the interface between a graphic and a viewer, designers and illustrators can learn to inform with accuracy and power. In a time of unprecedented competition for audience attention and with an increasing demand for complex graphics, Visual Language for Designers explains how to achieve quick and effective communications. New in paperback, this book presents ways to design for the strengths of our innate mental capacities and to compensate for our cognitive limitations. Visual Language for Designers includes: —How to organize graphics for quick perception —How to direct the eyes to essential information —How to use visual shorthand for efficient communication —How to make abstract ideas concrete —How to best express visual complexity —How to charge a graphic with energy and emotion

Author : Michael O'Toole
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636046
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Displayed Art written by Michael O'Toole and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his background as a linguist, O'Toole analyses in detail a number of major works of art to show how the semiotic approach relates a work's immediate impact to other aspects of our response to it: to the scene portrayed, to the social, intellectual and economic world within which the artist and his or her patrons worked, and to our own world. It further provides ways of talking about and interrelating aspects of composition, technique and the material qualities of the work.

Author : Carol Eckert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781465240095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversing in Art written by Carol Eckert and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and concise introductory level art text.

Author : Fernande Saint-Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253112699
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Visual Language written by Fernande Saint-Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the details of Saint-Martin's argument contain a wealth of penetrating observations from which anyone with a serious interest in visual communication will profit." -- Journal of Communication Saint-Martin elucidates a syntax of visual language that sheds new light on nonverbal language as a form of representation and communication. She describes the evolution of this language in the visual arts as well as its multiple uses in contemporary media. The result is a completely new approach for scholars and practitioners of the visual arts eager to decode the many forms of visual communication.

Author : Jack Fredrick Myers
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Visual Art written by Jack Fredrick Myers and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Micklewright
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856694605
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing written by Keith Micklewright and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to assumptions that drawing is a gift that cannot be learned, this book demonstrates that it is a highly teachable skill. As well as instructing the student how to draw, the book also serves as a visual handbook for artists and designers who need to express ideas through drawing. Each chapter addresses a key topic in drawing method and theory in order to improve technique and understanding. Issues such as perspective and the manipulation of tones and marks to make 3-D forms are tackled in a simple and direct way, with a wealth of drawings by the great masters of the medium, in addition to diagrams and tables. Each section also offers ways for the student to put into practice the ideas and concepts discussed. These 'Ideas to Explore' range from practical exercises in drawing to the selection of drawing surfaces (such as paper) and subjects to discovering ways of thinking.

Author : James Lancel McElhinney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402768484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visual Language of Drawing written by James Lancel McElhinney and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the insights of 15 current and former Art Students League instructors, this stunning volume reassesses the art of drawing not as a technique, but as the essential grammar of all visual thinking. In an illuminating introductory essay, James Lancel McElhinney punctures the myth that learning to draw is something for experts only, and presents methods for making, appreciating, and teaching drawing. The 15 contributors then offer a broad range of stylistic approaches and methodologies, accompanied by examples of their own and their students' artwork. A final section of basic exercises, along with information on materials, techniques, and resources, completes this inspirational study.

Author : Van James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945803881
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Language of Form written by Van James and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In drawing attention to the fundamental elements of form inherent in all graphic and sculptural art, Van James opens our eyes to the alphabet of the language of form. Through the simplest of indications, we find ourselves able to read the meaning of works of art from other cultures and times. We begin to know these cultures and peoples in ways we could not know through oral and written language alone. Likewise, we can begin to read the language that Mother Nature speaks through the form of every created object and being. We can join those on the cutting edge of a new science that investigates the spiritual forces at work within physical phenomena through exact perception of qualities of form. For everyone who is fascinated by nature, art, and life in different cultures.