Title:
Reading images : the grammar of visual design
Author:
Kress, Gunther R.
ISBN:
9780415319140
9780415319157
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description:
xv, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication -- Narrative representations: designing social action -- Conceptual representations: designing social constructs -- Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer -- Modality: designing models of reality -- The meaning of composition -- Materiality and meaning -- The third dimension -- Colourful thoughts (a postscript).
Abstract:
"Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - and provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images, which makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts."--Jacket.
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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002242.html